Living an active lifestyle through regular exercise has many benefits and stretching plays a big part in keeping your body fine tuned for exercise. Making sure your muscles, joints and ligaments are properly cared for during exercise is important.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

1). Why stretching sometimes gets overlooked when it comes to regular exercise or just being very physically active from day to day.

2). How stretching can be done both standing and in seated positions which makes it available to all fitness levels.

3). The importance of maintaining your Range Of Motion through regular stretching.

4). The dynamics of how your muscles tighten up over active periods of use and how stretching aids this process and helps keep your muscles relaxed after physical activity.

5). How stretching contributes to better levels of relaxation and stress relief.

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We hope this podcast episode is helpful to you, especially if you are interested in learning more about keeping your body healthy for years to come. Regular stretching is essential to physical activity and should be practiced regularly as the perfect compliment to your weekly exercises.

Team Meredith