Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. You always want to stretch after your workout or exercise not before.

Now, this is very counterintuitive. You would think if you stretch before the exercise,

you're going to reduce your risk of injury. But that's actually not true. You can actually

increase your risk of injury if But that's actually not true. You can actually increase your risk of

injury if you stretch right before the workout. Why? Because most injuries occur when the muscle

is in a lengthening phase, not a contracted face. So static stretching does not prevent injuries.

It can lower your performance. It can weaken your muscles.

It can even decrease blood flow to the muscles. So the best thing to do is to stretch after the

workout. That can actually increase your parasympathetic nervous system. So what should you do

before the exercise? Well, a lot of top athletes do dynamic stretching.

I'll put some links down below of what that looks like, but you're actually working the muscle as you're stretching it.

It's just very, very unnatural for the muscle to stretch it without any type of contraction.

The next thing that you should do, which is very, very good, is eccentric contractions.

I did a video on this. Very powerful. While you're contracting the muscle while you're

lengthening it, and then you pause, bring it up a little quicker, and then slowly, like maybe

three to four seconds, you're bringing it down. And you can do this with any part of your

body. But you can actually decrease the risk of injury when you do eccentric contractions,

especially the hamstring. You can actually decrease hamstring injuries by 50% if you do eccentric

contractions. Also, you're training the muscle to control that stretch force. So the more control, less injury.

You're also increasing range of motion and flexibility. And as a side note, you can actually do

strength training to increase your range of motion of flexibility. It's pretty wild. Now, I want you

to do an experiment, okay? And then come back to this video and post what you observed.

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