Hey everyone I’m doing a kinesiology project on importance of and reasons to stretch,warm up, and cool down. Also the how to prevent delayed onset muscle soarness (DOMS. If any of you have anything to add about either, through experience or articles you’ve read etc., it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Silas, I don't know of any research that actually confirms that stretching post workout actually decreases DOMS - in fact, I've heard and read that stretching before working out can actually decrease performance (I don't prescribe to that theory though - I'm a firm believer of stretching, although mostly for attempting to increase flexibility and not to increase performance). Flexibility is important for obvious reasons - increased range of motion, day-to-day injury prevention.
The only thing that seems to actually work for me to get over muscle soreness is ibuprofen and hot baths with obsene amounts of Epsom salt. However, I think that research has shown that working out muscles again, during DOMS phase, will actually decrease the lengh of time to recover. I've experienced this before.
Warming up is a necessity for numerous reasons: getting your heart rate up, warming up muscles, losening joints, getting in the zone... Ultimately it helps prevent injury during a workout.
Unfortunately I don't have any links to point you to at the moment, but you can probably find this all online. Wikipedia is always a good place to start - look in the references section at the bottom of a wikipedia entry and often it will point you to journal articles and abstracts.
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ReplyDeleteHey everyone I’m doing a kinesiology project on importance of and reasons to stretch,warm up, and cool down. Also the how to prevent delayed onset muscle soarness (DOMS.
ReplyDeleteIf any of you have anything to add about either, through experience or articles you’ve read etc., it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I don't have any links to point you to, but you can probably find this all online. Wikipedia is probably a good start.
ReplyDeleteoops - somehow didn't post everything I just wrote...
ReplyDeleteSilas, I don't know of any research that actually confirms that stretching post workout actually decreases DOMS - in fact, I've heard and read that stretching before working out can actually decrease performance (I don't prescribe to that theory though - I'm a firm believer of stretching, although mostly for attempting to increase flexibility and not to increase performance). Flexibility is important for obvious reasons - increased range of motion, day-to-day injury prevention.
The only thing that seems to actually work for me to get over muscle soreness is ibuprofen and hot baths with obsene amounts of Epsom salt. However, I think that research has shown that working out muscles again, during DOMS phase, will actually decrease the lengh of time to recover. I've experienced this before.
Warming up is a necessity for numerous reasons: getting your heart rate up, warming up muscles, losening joints, getting in the zone... Ultimately it helps prevent injury during a workout.
Unfortunately I don't have any links to point you to at the moment, but you can probably find this all online. Wikipedia is always a good place to start - look in the references section at the bottom of a wikipedia entry and often it will point you to journal articles and abstracts.
Good luck on the paper!