Re: How soon to stretch after running?

[\El Paisano\]

"Svend Cr" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Can I ask you keen runners and exercise specialists about
> stretching after a run.
>
> How soon after running should I stretch?
>
If you are going to stretch it makes sense to do it while your muscles are
still warm. You can stretch immediately after your run. After
showering/bathing is also a good time to stretch.

> I have allowed myself to get unfit and a bit overweight so at the
> moment I am running only a mile or so.

If your goal is to lose your excess weight, you will find little success
with short one-mile runs (unless your doing them several times a day, I
couldn't tell from your post). Consider slowing down a bit--walking if
necessary--and running for longer periods of time. And remember, running at
any distance does not allow you to ignore the diet component of a weight
loss program.

[Joe S.]

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""El Paisano"" <matthewvenhaus@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Svend Cr" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:952E6C57B4E14471AE@130.133.1.4...
> > Can I ask you keen runners and exercise specialists about
> > stretching after a run.
> >
> > How soon after running should I stretch?
> >
> If you are going to stretch it makes sense to do it while your muscles are
> still warm. You can stretch immediately after your run. After
> showering/bathing is also a good time to stretch.
>
> > I have allowed myself to get unfit and a bit overweight so at the
> > moment I am running only a mile or so.
>
> If your goal is to lose your excess weight, you will find little success
> with short one-mile runs (unless your doing them several times a day, I
> couldn't tell from your post). Consider slowing down a bit--walking if
> necessary--and running for longer periods of time. And remember, running
at
> any distance does not allow you to ignore the diet component of a weight
> loss program.
>
>

[Joe S.]

""El Paisano"" <matthewvenhaus@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Svend Cr" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:952E6C57B4E14471AE@130.133.1.4...
> > Can I ask you keen runners and exercise specialists about
> > stretching after a run.
> >
> > How soon after running should I stretch?
> >
> If you are going to stretch it makes sense to do it while your muscles are
> still warm. You can stretch immediately after your run. After
> showering/bathing is also a good time to stretch.
>
> > I have allowed myself to get unfit and a bit overweight so at the
> > moment I am running only a mile or so.
>
> If your goal is to lose your excess weight, you will find little success
> with short one-mile runs (unless your doing them several times a day, I
> couldn't tell from your post). Consider slowing down a bit--walking if
> necessary--and running for longer periods of time. And remember, running
at
> any distance does not allow you to ignore the diet component of a weight
> loss program.

The diet component? So you mean that in addition to running 8-10 miles a
day I need to stop eating ice cream and drinking beer?


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Joe S.

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[Moderator]

"Joe S." <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:<cdptfs09uv@news1.newsguy.com>...
> > > How soon after running should I stretch?

80 to 90 years, or after death.

[Sam]

""El Paisano"" <matthewvenhaus@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Svend Cr" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:952E6C57B4E14471AE@130.133.1.4...
> > Can I ask you keen runners and exercise specialists about
> > stretching after a run.
> >
> > How soon after running should I stretch?
> >
> If you are going to stretch it makes sense to do it while your muscles are
> still warm. You can stretch immediately after your run. After
> showering/bathing is also a good time to stretch.
>
> > I have allowed myself to get unfit and a bit overweight so at the
> > moment I am running only a mile or so.
>
> If your goal is to lose your excess weight, you will find little success
> with short one-mile runs (unless your doing them several times a day, I
> couldn't tell from your post). Consider slowing down a bit--walking if
> necessary--and running for longer periods of time. And remember, running
at
> any distance does not allow you to ignore the diet component of a weight
> loss program.
>
>

If the person is just beginning starting with a mile is not a bad idea.

[John B.]

YOu don't need to stretch at all. I almost never do. If you're
stretching to avoid injury, you're wasting your time. Runners who
stretch don't get injured any less than runners who don't stretch.
That's from the Mayo Clinic.



"\"El Paisano\"" <matthewvenhaus@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<10fvm3ilij68eef@corp.supernews.com>...
> "Svend Cr" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:952E6C57B4E14471AE@130.133.1.4...
> > Can I ask you keen runners and exercise specialists about
> > stretching after a run.
> >
> > How soon after running should I stretch?
> >
> If you are going to stretch it makes sense to do it while your muscles are
> still warm. You can stretch immediately after your run. After
> showering/bathing is also a good time to stretch.
>
> > I have allowed myself to get unfit and a bit overweight so at the
> > moment I am running only a mile or so.
>
> If your goal is to lose your excess weight, you will find little success
> with short one-mile runs (unless your doing them several times a day, I
> couldn't tell from your post). Consider slowing down a bit--walking if
> necessary--and running for longer periods of time. And remember, running at
> any distance does not allow you to ignore the diet component of a weight
> loss program.

[TheBillRodgerz]

>YOu don't need to stretch at all. I almost never do. If you're
>stretching to avoid injury, you're wasting your time. Runners who
>stretch don't get injured any less than runners who don't stretch.
>That's from the Mayo Clinic.

I've been saying this for years! My opinion comes from year after year of trial
and error, and my present record has me doing 9 miles a day, for roughly a 1/4
of a century with no injuries (nike related injury not included). Before that,
with lesser mileage, I had many varied injurys, stopped stretching, end of
injurys.