Always Stretch AFTER Your Workout Not Before
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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If you stretch before your workout, you need to listen to this!
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| 0:00.0 | You always want to stretch after your workout or exercise now before. |
| 0:19.6 | Now this is very counterintuitive. |
| 0:21.5 | You would think if you stretch before the exercise, you're going to reduce your risk of injury. |
| 0:27.5 | But that's actually not true. |
| 0:29.0 | You can actually increase your risk of injury if you stretch right before the workout. |
| 0:34.5 | Why? |
| 0:35.5 | Because most injuries occur when the muscle is in a lengthening phase, not a contracted |
| 0:40.6 | phase. |
| 0:41.6 | Static stretching does not prevent injuries. |
| 0:44.8 | It can lower your performance. |
| 0:47.0 | It can weaken your muscles. |
| 0:49.3 | It can even decrease blood flow to the muscles. |
| 0:52.0 | The best thing to do is to stretch after the workout. |
| 0:54.8 | That can actually increase your parasympathetic nervous system. |
| 0:58.9 | So what should you do before the exercise? |
| 1:01.2 | Well, a lot of top athletes do dynamic stretching. |
| 1:04.2 | I'll put some links down below of what that looks like, but you're actually working |
| 1:08.2 | the muscle as you're stretching it. |
| 1:10.8 | It's just very, very unnatural for the muscle to stretch it without any type of contraction. |
| 1:16.1 | The next thing that you should do, which is very, very good, is eccentric contractions. |
| 1:21.2 | I did a video on this very powerful while you're contracting the muscle while you're lengthening |
| 1:27.0 | it. |
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