Kim from Soulcore Fitness explains why static stretching before exercise backfires: it activates Golgi tendon organs that temporarily shut down muscle function. Instead, start with dynamic warm-ups like jogging and jumping jacks, then use faster stretches combined with myofascial work to improve range of motion without losing performance.
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Hey guys, this is Kim again from soulcore Fitness. Again, thank you so much for all your emails. Keep reaching out again. You can always reach out to us on our webpage, socorefitness.com. what I want to talk about today is stretching. So there's a couple big common misconceptions about stretching, right? So we have this idea of stretching that was back in the 50s of what we used to do. People will do these static, nonspecific stretches before they work out, if they work out, and then they go about their day. What I'm here to tell you is that stretching needs to be scientific. It needs to be planned. There needs to be a reason why. So the main reason why we stretch should be to keep our body in place to move free. That's the main thing, right? I want to have full access to my body. So that's one reason. You don't start off with stretching, okay? You don't start your day. Excuse me, you don't start a workout routine with stretching. You start a routine with an active movement, jogging plays, you do some translations for your spine, you roll down rough your hamstrings, you do some proprioception of your acl, do some jumping jacks, whatever, right? I want everything to basically wake up and move, okay? Because I'm about to go do golf or tennis or go ski. I want everything to like, be firing. The reason the body will stretch is because it's kind of a defense mechanism. So I'll give you an example. It's kind of crappy, but it works, okay? So let's say my elbow's really tight, okay? But I want to go play golf, okay? So I think, ah, I need a stretch. So I put my arm here is a bad stretch. Please don't do this. And I want to stretch. The reason why my body will allow my arm to go from here to maybe here via the stretch is because once I start to stretch it, it's starting to go too far from my body. So I get signals sent to all these little Golgi tendons and stuff to turn things off. Oh, turn it off so I can move a little bit more. I now stretch a little bit more. I've increased the range of motion. That's been the big argument for stretching before. To increase the range of motion. Sure, it increases the range of motion, but it also turns off the tissue. Now, if I have to go play golf or play tennis and I have to use my elbow, I've lost function. Not total function. I've lost function of this. So I perform worse. Performing worse could be just plain bad. Or performing worse means now my body will compensate and use other areas. Now you end up with more problems. You need to warm up. Like I said, you need to do your activity and then you need to stretch using mild, faster stretching. And Aldoa. Myofascial stretching is stretching the muscles in its opposite action. We'll take the bicep again. So if I'm stretching my bicep, I have two. I have a long head, I have a short head, so I have different actions. So if I do the long head, since it does abduction going out, I need to do adduction. If I stretch the short head, since it does adduction, I have to do abduction because my biceps do flexion, I have to do extension. Because they work in other parts of my neck, I have to work with the fasciae. You have to do the opposite action and then know where the fasciae is attached to to put it into tension. You want to make sure you re educate the body via myofascial stretching. Aldo is for the joints, as I said before, to keep the joints have space. So again, thank you for your questions. Please reach back out. Thank you. Appreciate.
