[ELI5] Why does stretching feel so good?
In: Biology
When you are not moving for a while, your body relaxes and try to heal, you are healing all the time. But that healing, sometimes, makes your muscles a little bit not so wide. When you stretch after being sleep or sit down for a while, your muscles and tendons became a little longer for a little time, and you “break” some of that “wrong” healing, and that’s just a little but painful. But later, your body will heal properly so you will feel better.
People that do not exercise or stay too much time still can feel great pain when they stretch, because their muscles and tendons are not so wide anymore and stretching makes them longer, and that hurts more if your muscles are not that strong. But they too can recover with training.
That’s why we should do some exercise everyday and stretch when we wake up: to have a strong body that does not hurt after relaxing for a while.
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