A Few Things Worth Knowing About Stretching Flexibility
Achieving stretching flexibility is something that you will come to expect each time you do one of the many different stretching exercises, and there are a number of benefits that stretching in itself provides to you including better physical fitness and improved ability to learn and also perform skilled movements. However, stretching flexibility is but one aspect to stretching that however does interest many people, and therefore in order to achieve their goals, their stretching routine should help them to train stretch receptors into becoming used to having longer muscles, and to also lower connective tissue resistance to the elongation of their muscles.
Different Types Of Flexibility
Another factor worth noting is that there are different types of flexibility that can be grouped together depending on the type of activity performed. Thus, you will find that there are some stretching flexibility exercises that involve motion and these are typically known as dynamic stretching, while others that are known as static stretching do not involve any motion. Among the other types of stretching flexibility exercises, you can include static-active flexibility, and static-passive flexibility, and in addition, you should also understand how flexibility is affected by different factors.
Thus, there are internal influences and external influences that will influence stretching flexibility and among the internal factors are type of joint, internal resistance within the joint, elasticity of muscle tissues, tendons and ligaments, and even of the skin, and many more factors. On the other hand, the external factors that affect stretching flexibility include temperature of the place where you train, time of day, stage in recovery process of the joint, age and gender as well as personal abilities to perform certain exercises.
Suffice to say, that the factors that most limit your body's ability to become flexible include your bone structure, excess of fatty tissue, muscle mass and connective tissue as well as physical injuries. How well the health of the bone structure of any given joint is while doing your stretching flexibility will ultimately governs how flexible your body becomes, and in this regard, age plays an important role, which can, in your older years, is a limiting factor as far as flexibility goes.
Also, your muscle mass is a factor that influences the outcome of stretching flexibility and if the muscle is too heavily developed, it can interfere in the ability of adjacent joints in completing their full range of motion. In any case, most of your stretching flexibility must involve doing exercises that will help to lower the soft connective tissue's internal resistance.
