Take a Deep Breath and Relax

Breathing technique is a very important yet commonly overlooked factor when it comes to stretching success. To understand why and how we breathe while stretching you first must learn what deep breathing does within the muscle itself. Remember how muscle spindles encourage muscle contraction as a means of protecting the tissue from harm that could occur during a stretch? Well, this contraction does serve an important protective function to the muscle, it also prevents the ROM gains a flexibility program aims to achieve.