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Ballistic Stretching
Ballistic stretching is also called active stretching. In this
type of stretching, you don’t just extended the muscle
outwards. Instead, you are doing a more complex and more
extensive type of stretch. If you haven’t used any stretching
methods before, you will want to work on learning a few methods
of stretching that incorporate ballistic stretching methods. In
fact, you’ll want to add this type of stretching to your
workout. Ballistic stretching allows for the perfect warm up
before you exercise. For that reason, anyone that will do any
type of challenging or semi challenging exercise will need to
work on incorporating ballistic stretching into their exercise
regimen as their method for warming up.
What Happens?
During ballistic stretching, you will use motion as well as
momentum to fully extend your muscles. During this type of
stretching, your body will go through a series of motions meant
to encourage muscles to be more flexible for your oncoming
routine or exercise. You will use a specific type of rapid
motions that will end in a stretch position.
The type of ballistic stretches should be carefully considered
and should be somewhat specific to the type of exercise that
you will be doing following the stretches. When you incorporate
them into your workout, you will only use light ballistic
stretches to warm up. Otherwise, you could risk injury.
For one light ballistic type of stretch, do the following.
Stand with your arms at your side. Relax. Now, flex and then
extended each of your joints. Then, rotate each of the joints
carefully. You can do this with your ankles, knees, shoulders,
wrist, elbows, fingers, hips, toes, feet, shoulder blades and
your trunk. You can repeat them if you would like to.
By providing yourself with specific ballistic stretching
exercises, you allow your body to become accustom to doing the
activities that will be required of it in more force later. As
a warm up, it can be quite a great way to get your body ready
to go and do what you want it to do. Without providing this
type of stretching, you risk injury to those joints. In
addition to doing your regular workout, try to add some of
these ballistic stretching exercises before you start. This
will make the workout even more effective then it was
before.
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