Is Stretching the Least Important Weight Lifting Technique For Avoiding Muscle Injuries?
Stretching has long been touted as the most effective muscle injury prevention technique available, and thus is used by numerous bodybuilders prior to weight training workout sessions to reduce the chance of muscle tears and strains. Much time is spent executing various types of stretches depending upon which muscle is to be trained, and there is no argument that increasing flexibility can allow for superior range of motion during weight training exercises, and also can reduce the incidence of numerous muscle injuries. Yet, despite the benefits of stretching, for the bodybuilder who is hoisting heavy poundage during weight training workouts, there is a far more effective injury prevention technique that can be executed in connection with, or even in lieu of stretching, and is ignored by far too many bodybuilders. Warm up sets are, by far, the most powerful weight training workout injury prevention method, as they prepare a muscle for pending stress, and when implemented properly within
