Massageman

Excellent article. As a massage therapist, I have been putting these ideas together myself, but this sums it all up beautifully.

falcon43

Great article! Personally I perform the stretch after each part is worked. At the completion of training I run the entire gammet as a cool down. I have found that (after initially starting the stretches) I feel less soreness and am less tired the following day.

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UnboundSpartan

Great read, evidence backing DC's methods. Nj SM.

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reesemortensen

Great article!!! Thanks man!!!!

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all4show

This is an excellent article and I will definately be emphasizing stretches from now on.

NateTheGreat424

Thanks for that.

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ddubb9965

spectacular explanation!

Jyzza

Have been lifting for 6-7 years and this is one of the better posts which I have read. Very beneficial information in order to move to the next level.

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bruno

this article is really helpful to understanding the rationale behind the painful stretches. this will help me hodl those stretches those last few seconds when I feel like I can;t do it anymore!

Tight Five

Bump because of another thread I used to find this!!

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big an rich

Great post, very useful information.

xdougyx

Great article, got a question, though.
I dont have a whole lot of experience with overtraining, but it seems to me that acquirering a pump on the first set of your workout, then doing some kick ass stretches could def. bring on some kind of overtraining if your not careful, since you dont just do one exercise for a muscle; you do multiple exercises to hit different parts of that muscle, so by getting a pump on the first exercise, youve already killed that muscle ,then you go on and finish the rest of the workout?

Maybe i didnt read right, just need some clarification.

gdbear65

Great read! My massage therapist told me that muscle can also attach itself to bone where it's not supposed to. The therapist I see developed his own method based on Shiatsu - it's painful but it's made a huge difference for me.

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ed515

great info. thanks a lot!