Lifting + stretching; yay or nay?

[MessiMessiMessi]

Stretching after lifting?

Stretching between warm-up and lifting?

No stretching?

What say you?

[GeneralSerpant]

Stretching after lifting?

Stretching between warm-up and lifting?

No stretching?

What say you?

Flexibility is its own thing in fitness. Between muscle stress and that, regular stretching will service some specific condition for most anybody. But it’s hardly a rule that everybody must stretch for either muscle health, flexibility, or either (necessarily). For instance, someone’s specific practice in the gym might stress flexibility, while muscle soreness is the person’s relative disposition and stretching isn’t necessarily necessary.

[TimKridel]

I stretch before lifting. At 52, I probably should afterward, too, but I don't.

[air2fakie]

"Stretching" is a very vague term.

[dbmata]

Lazy people treat stretching like they treat cardio, to be avoided at all costs.

[Bando]

Warm up before lifting, stretch after.

[mtpockets]

Stretching after lifting?

Stretching between warm-up and lifting?

No stretching?

What say you?

I have never stretched before or after lifting and I have been at this a long time... I warm up by starting light.


The only time I ever stretched was for Martial Arts

[GeneralSerpant]

I have never stretched before or after lifting and I have been at this a long time... I warm up by starting light.


The only time I ever stretched was for Martial Arts

What about yoga?

[Cantplankwell]

Jump rope until the chill is off, usually 3-5 min.

More of a Dynamic warm up...: https://www.catalystathletics.com/vi...-Greg-Everett/
Sometimes I have to cut it short if a rack is opening up and I have to quickly grab it


Afterwards...no stretchy I just leave.

[mtpockets]

What about yoga?

The closest I ever came to doing Yoga was playing twister.

I do like seeing the ladies in yoga pants though, well some of them.

[BeginnerGainz]

I find that lifting IS a form of stretching, and superior to the passive tension you get from static unloaded stretching.

I experimented with static stretching after working out for about 6 months and didn’t see a discernible difference.

Also experimented with yoga and I do see the value in getting good at holding weird positions, which is hard because I was WEAK in them, not because I lacked the mobility to get into them.

Yoga just cost time and money that I don’t have.

[weiss1967]

really depends how far you take them lifting and stretching. Both could (and sometimes should) be taken to a certain healthy level of injury. But when combined, you almost guarantee to detach muscle somewhere.

[GeneralSerpant]

I find that lifting IS a form of stretching, and superior to the passive tension you get from static unloaded stretching.

That’s mostly dependent on if you’re doing the exercise properly. And more proper than progression dictates.