Do you remember to stretch after every workout? Stretching after a workout can help kickstart the recovery process, loosen up your joints and muscles, and increase flexibility, all of which will help make you less susceptible to fitness injury and muscle soreness!
And nothing ruins a fitness plan like an injury. So, if you’re serious about getting fit, it’s important to remember to stretch after every workout to avoid injury and maintain balance and coordination, especially as you age. A study in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that people who stretched lower-body muscles for 30 minutes immediately after exercise improved balance by 11 percent.
Loosening up muscles weakens the contraction response, which is heightened after a strength-training workout and causes the teeter-totter effect that can lead to a fall, researchers say. 30 minutes may seem like a lot, but a broken or fractured hip from a fall takes a lot longer to recover from.
