If exercise is tearing our muscles why are we supposed to stretch after exercise-wouldn’t it just tear them more? And if so is it tearing in a different way than exercise is? Also why are we supposed to warm up a muscle before stretching?
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Exercising a muscles means that the weight is trying to stretch it while the muscle tries to hold itself together. This creates microtears because the muscle is struggling against the force that stretches it.
Normal stretching instead is less hard on the muscle, it’s simply pulling it at its extremities while the muscle relaxes.
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