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REAL News - November 2018Feb 09

February 9, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

The Science and Fad of Stretching

What’s the common theme in these pictures? No, guys, it’s not that they are all women stretching. Jeez. It’s that they are all stretching exercises. And they are variations of ones many exercisers do before or after a run or a class. But if you buy into stretching for reasons other than what it canRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: benefits of stretching, flexibility training, Stretching, stretching exercises

Real News September 2016Jun 23

June 23, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

On Stretching, Time, and Reward

In this piece in the Times, the issue of whether or not to stretch, and if so, how, is addressed, yet again: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/to-stretch-or-not-to-stretch/?r… The quick and dirty is that studies have demonstrated that power and strength are lost after extended durations of static stretching; that newer studies have shown that stretches under 30 seconds doRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: benefits of stretching, dynamic stretching, flexibility, running

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