Nepz Fitness: How to stretch properly to avoid injury

What is stretching ?

Stretching is a drill which one needs to perform after any type of physical activity, so that muscles, nerves, joints, etc gets relaxes after the physical stress during exercise.

Why is it necessary ?

During exercise, different body parts would have got different stress level. Some may be contracted, some may be expanded, so it will be covered with lactic acid, which gives that burning effect. That's a good pain. So, in order to sooth the effect uniformly to entire area, one need to stretch all the muscles that was impacted during exercise.

What happens if i ignore ?

This is not very uncommon that people oversee stretching. Even it happens with elite athletes. It ends up in Injury. Our body takes more time to heel a injury compare to recover from exercise. So, it's not worth taking the risk.

When should i do this ?

By general rule, one should perform stretching after any form of exercise, to avoid injury.

How to do ?

I'm going to explain routine for each portion of the body from head to heel. Take time to practice this initially. It will take more time initially, after that you can do it very quickly, say in 5 mins.