Welcome to this weeks edition of Baby Boomer Health – Stretching

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This is your host, Denise Boomer and Dr. Bee Boomer, welcoming you to this weeks edition of the Baby Boomer Health on PodcastForBoomers.com.

This week we are talking about Stretching.

Stretching before you exercise is good for you. Maybe! It depends upon on the type of stretching you do.

The old fashioned static stretching – holding a stretch for 20 seconds – is not good for you. It actually weakens the muscle for up to 30 minutes.

You need to start your stretching with an aerobic warm up such a jogging. This warms the muscles and dilates the blood vessels, increasing the blood flow. Follow this with dynamic stretching. For example the straight leg march. Stand up and kick you right leg up with toes pointed to the sky. Touch your toes with your left hand. Bring the leg down and repeat with the left leg and right hand. Do 6 repetitions of this.

We don't know if dynamic stretching protects against injury but we do know that static stretching offers no protection at all.

Thanks to Gretchen Reynolds and the NY Times for this information.

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