EXERCISE PROGRESS: How To Make Rapid Progress With Stretching Exercises

Make Sure You Do Stretching Exercises Along With Resistance Exercises

This is the first tip for making rapid progress with stretching exercises. If you feel like your muscles are not stretching well enough, it is most likely because the muscles that you are trying to stretch are too weak right now. Muscles are quite smart. They know when they can stretch and when they shouldn’t. Your muscles won’t stretch when they suspect that their stretching may end up tearing up themselves. Therefore, you should do resistance exercises along with stretching exercises, giving your muscles the strength needed to stretch without tearing up.

Work On All Necessary Muscles

Your thigh is a three dimensional structure with five adductor muscles, four quadriceps muscles and three hamstring muscles. That’s a total of 12. Therefore, if you only do stretching exercises for your quadriceps, your thigh won’t gain much more mobility, because quadriceps muscles are only 1/3 of the total thigh muscles. If you want to make decent progress with your thigh, you should work on all 12 muscles of the thigh.

Exercise Regularly and Frequently

It is okay to exercise with moderate intensity. Just make sure you are doing stretching exercises regularly and frequently.

Final Note

It is not easy to make rapid progress with stretching exercises. However, following the advices introduced above, it would be possible to reduce the time needed to enhance your mobility with stretching exercises. For even more rapid progress, I recommend you to do some research on nerve glide technique. These techniques are designed to decompress the potentially compressed nervous tissues in your body. While it is true that you should do the exercises until you feel at least some degree of muscle fatigue, it is always safe to stop exercising when you feel significant pain and discomfort during the exercises.