Stretching for young athletes

Tuesday, 3 November, 2009

Stretching is a very important part of your training and is often missed or overlooked.  When you train hard you are using the same muscles in your body over and over again. It is there for important to stretch all the muscles in your body to maintain their length.  If you do not stretch properly then this will have an issue on the range of movement of joints.  For example in swimming the quadricep muscles and hip flexor muscles are dominant during leg kick, therefore hamstrings will become shorter unless you stretch them.  By stretching properly you can reduce injury.  Please look at this stretch sheet for information on all the stretches you should be doing.  Remember if your muscle is short then you need to hold the stretch for a minimum of 40 seconds as often as you can.  Contact us for further information.

Stretch sheet number 1

Stretch sheet number 1

One Response to “Stretching for young athletes”

  1. Chantal says:

    One of the rare good sheets I found on the net, that says to hold the stretches a good 40 seconds… I’ve been teaching for 10 years, and still have to convince people to hold their stretches as long as that! Those stretches are the basics to do, and i will recommand your sheet to my customers…
    thanks

Leave a Reply

YATA © 2009 | Site Design Toby James Creative