http://www.fitnessmash.com/2012/03/stretching-your-healthy-limb-may-help-maintain-strength-in-your-injured-one/ Where Smart People Go to Get Fit Thu, 02 May 2013 00:41:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.fitnessmash.com/2012/03/stretching-your-healthy-limb-may-help-maintain-strength-in-your-injured-one/comment-page-1/#comment-7646 Meaghan Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:19:31 +0000 http://www.fitnessmash.com/?p=9664#comment-7646 Great points, Ryan. And your comment will lead nicely into our discussion on Monday regarding pre-workout stretching recommendations :). Great points, Ryan. And your comment will lead nicely into our discussion on Monday regarding pre-workout stretching recommendations .

]]> http://www.fitnessmash.com/2012/03/stretching-your-healthy-limb-may-help-maintain-strength-in-your-injured-one/comment-page-1/#comment-7641 Ryan Heffernan Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:59:18 +0000 http://www.fitnessmash.com/?p=9664#comment-7641 While I find it a little hard to believe that stretching your right leg can strengthen your left, I believe that the amount of stretching of the one calf that they did in the study could be the reason for the strength increase in the stretched leg. First, I think that the warming effect from the amount of stretching the researchers did to the one calf may have better prepared that leg for the single leg calf raise as opposed to the other leg that received no stretching. Second I agree that the activation of the muscle spindles due to the prolonged stretching directly increased the strength in the stretched calf, as if it almost "wanted" to contract after all of that stretching. GO STRETCH!! While I find it a little hard to believe that stretching your right leg can strengthen your left, I believe that the amount of stretching of the one calf that they did in the study could be the reason for the strength increase in the stretched leg. First, I think that the warming effect from the amount of stretching the researchers did to the one calf may have better prepared that leg for the single leg calf raise as opposed to the other leg that received no stretching. Second I agree that the activation of the muscle spindles due to the prolonged stretching directly increased the strength in the stretched calf, as if it almost “wanted” to contract after all of that stretching. GO STRETCH!!

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