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you always want to stretch after your  workout or exercise not before now this  

is very counterintuitive you would think if  you stretch before the exercise you’re going to  

reduce your risk of injury but that’s actually  not true you can actually increase your risk  

of injury if you stretch right before the workout  why because most injuries occur when the muscle  

is in a lengthening phase not a contracted phase  so static stretching does not prevent injuries  

it can lower your performance it can weaken  your muscles it can even decrease blood flow  

to the muscles so the best thing to do is to  stretch after the workout that can actually  

increase your parasympathetic nervous system  so what should you do before the exercise  

well a lot of top athletes do dynamic stretching  i’ll put some links down below of what that looks  

like but you’re actually working the muscle as  you’re stretching it it’s just very very unnatural  

for the muscle to stretch it without any type  of contraction the next thing that you should do  

which is very very good is eccentric contractions  i did a video on this very powerful while you’re  

contracting the muscle while you’re lengthening  it and then you pause bring it up a little quicker  

and then slowly like maybe three to four seconds  you’re bringing it down and you can do this  

with any part of your body but you can actually  decrease the risk of injury when you do eccentric  

contractions especially the hamstring you can  actually decrease hamstring injuries by 50 if you  

do eccentric contractions also you’re training the  muscle to control that stretch force so the more  

control less injury you’re also increasing range  of motion and flexibility and as a side note you  

can actually do strength training to increase your  range of motion and flexibility it’s pretty wild  

now i want you to do an experiment okay and then  come back to this video and post what you observed  

okay so this week i want you to take one of the  workouts that you normally do and stretch before  

the workout and then the next day with stretch  after the workout and i want you to observe the  

performance the endurance of that exercise your  flexibility how far you’re able to touch your toes  

or your general range of motion and just compare  these two things and then comment down below  

you’re going to find that if you stretch after the  workout your flexibility your range of motion is  

going to be much much better hey before you go if  you’re benefiting from any of my content i would  

love to hear about your success story  please share it in the link down below