Can STRETCHING Build Muscle? 

My squats started going up tremendously after picking up a stretching routine Flexibility's extremely underrated in the fitness world, ngl

@@fansee1368 what routine are you running?

@@fansee1368 the squat is mobility heavy so it makes perfect sense in a way having more mobility means you can more effectively produce power imo

@@rizzwan-42069 I was also extremely sedentary before picking up the gym, so my legs were even more stiff than the average male's Wish I didn't neglect it as much, not gonna lie lmao

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Yeah I've been watching this david guy here on RU-vid and he's always like "find a stretch and hold for 20-30 seconds" and I'm like mate I can barely hold it for 15 seconds

@@michaeltagor4238 I watch the same bloke and the couch stretch is fucken agony 😂

@@michaeltagor4238 It's all about finding a level of stretch that you can hold for 30 seconds to get the most benefit. This is going to be different for everyone based on their level of flexibility as well as many other things.

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this is complete bullshit. every single part of what you just wrote is false, with the exception of the micro tears and the stretch times, that's not wrong per se, it's just misleading.

All true, except make sure your pre-workout stretch is light and mobility based. Deep intense stretching before a workout can be dangerous. Save that stuff for after the workout.

yeah i’d agree, static stretching will decrease power and strength before working out.

that last part about lactic acid is completely unnecessary because lactic acid actually helps in muscle activity and contrary to popular belief is not actually what causes pain in your muscle

K, imma address every point. *Do it. Or you’ll be stiff when you’re old* Stiffness is a neurological response. basically your nervous system is telling you that it doesn't trust that range of motion and it fears injury. stretching makes the nervous system shut up, but doesn't prevent injury. If you want to not be stiff and prevent injury, you achieve that by training your muscles, not by stretching. *you’ll injure yourself easier because your muscles won’t be used to stretching, so they will hyperextend and your muscle will be injured* This is false, what determines if you get injured is your tissue integrity and the stress applied to your tissues. Improving your tissue integrity is achieved by resistance training. Stretching doesn't make your muscles used to stretching, it makes your nervous system used to stretching. *Stretching does cause micro tears in the muscle fibers, so they do actually help hypertrophy* Static stretching generates a minuscule amount of passive tension, which has a very negligible hypertrophy effect(shall i remind you that micro tears are not the main driver of hypertrophy, total mechanical tension is). *you’re recruiting more of your muscle for your resistance training if you stretch before your workout* If you talk about a warm up consisting in mobilising joints, active stretching and respective post activation potentiation, then yes, that does improve power output. If you're talking about static stretching, that actually reduces power output, so that claim would be false. *And stretching after your workout helps remove lactic acid* Nope it doesn't, for 2 reasons. First, lactic acid doesn't exist in the human body, Lactate, which is a base not an acid, does. Second, lactate levels clear out after minutes to a couple hours by themselves, so there is no reason to try to clear it out faster, as it doesn't have any negative effects nor does it correlate with muscle soreness. *30 seconds to one minute is good enough for each muscle you stretch.* This one i agree with, because it has been shown that stretching sets of 30s and 60s have the same range of motion improvement effect, so if you want to dismiss everything I've said and still stretch because it feels good(i do it sometimes, no shame in that) or something, stick with 30s sets. Having said that, if you wanna stretch for it's supposed benefits, there's better ways to achieve greater range of motion, actually prevent injury and not experience the drawbacks of static stretching. Those better ways are resistance training at lengthened muscle positions, like RDLs for the hamstrings.

Thanks for the kind words Daneil.

I always thought that the act of setting up and holding a stretch requires muscle activation (not necessarily in the target muscle to stretch) which I would think provides significant benefit, especially when doing these things for 45min a day or so.

It's not just stretching, mental, and spiritual stuff. Alot of it is stabilizing isometrics as well as more active calisthenics type stuff done very consistently. Much of this won't give you huge size, but it will allow you to use the mass you already have at greater strength and range of motion. It will also give you some mass, but not as much as you would get if all you did was lift big weight.

No, I believe that they did not exercise.

good question considering the participants were having 1+ year of uninterrupted strength training experience. it wasn't mentioned if they had stopped training afaik

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Definatley listen to smith, slaps hard

Its about 30 grams im pretty sure but some supplements will make it easier for you to absorb protein and nutrients

@@DIIMAYT No, you can most probably absorb more than that. Picture Fit did a video on this as well.

What?

@@JoshBenware it's just a april 1st joke bro

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You definatley dont do worse with normal training The stretched part adds a future proofing Imagine a shirt that can expand Anwyay your not jolting 400kg plates into a stretch deadlift stretch. It's the individual muscles that help the activity.. 100kg stretch leg press for example

@@nolesy34 I see, good point.

How old are you?

soooo noobie gains and proper nutrition

@@NorThenX047 noobie gains is hard one The hardest step is the first

Sound like a dilmah commercial 👌

Well stop eating Or go to NASA

What he's thinking of is technically a muscle too.

My initial thoughts as well

He said we lack the data to confirm or deny that. Watch the whole thing it’s only 6 minutes