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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thetallerpaul" data-source="post: 275975" data-attributes="member: 42396">Stretching as part of your warm up can improve the elasticity of your muscles and connective tissues before exercise. It is a useful part of maintaining your flexibility and avoiding injury from exercise and just in general life. Professional atheletes don't do it for a laugh they do it because it slows down how quickly your muscles build up lactic acid and improves performance. Many atheletes put the longevity of their career down to a stretching regime. Although if you do it from cold you risk damage as you would by doing anything that puts your body under stress without any warm up.Animals might not do a quad stretch but not many animals go from rest to full flight for anything but a short burst if they can avoid it. If you watch a big cat like a cheetah they build up their speed gradually before full charge. Prey animals are almost always moving so keep warmed up ready to go at all times. If you never stopped moving from dawn to dusk and only sat down to sleep I doubt you would need to warm up either.That said I very rarely do it after exercise, I make it part of my daily routine now after a horrible visit to a yoga class showed me how bad my tendons were. I am now much more mobile and in less pain especially from my back as shortened hamstrings especially can really contribute to lower back pain. Icebaths are great for reducing inflammation from muscles damaged by exercise. If your muscles hurt some time after exercise an icebath can help them heal faster whereas stretching is unlikely to help the pain (although it will avoid your tendons shortening which will eventually lead to lower mobility).TTP</blockquote>

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