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Exercise Question

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 08:45am on 01/02/2007
Why does it feel so good to stretch?
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posted by [identity profile] surliminal.livejournal.com at 11:35am on 01/02/2007
To relieve cramped muscles? Muscles only basically tense and untense. And tense = cramps, pain. there might also be a release of pressure on joints?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:08pm on 01/02/2007
But pleasure is not the same as an absence of pain.
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 12:01pm on 01/02/2007
When you feel tense, you tense your muscles. I suspect that if you stretch, your brain feels a message telling it that you must be feeling relaxed.
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posted by [identity profile] pigeonhed.livejournal.com at 12:34pm on 01/02/2007
depends what you stretch?
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posted by [personal profile] damienw at 01:30pm on 01/02/2007
nerves, what carry signals, are physical things what are routed through/around/between muscles.

make muscles loose and soft and sleepy = less cross-talking nerves = comfort
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:07pm on 01/02/2007
That's more what I was hoping for - a physiological-type explanation.

I've Googled a bit, and there's
* exertion causes muscles to get microtears and scar tissue. Stretching reduces adhesions and assists muscle fibres to align.
* stretching improves circulation, of nutrients and oxygen to the muscle cells and of toxins and lactic acid from the cells. When tense, the circulation is squeezed out of the muscle, so it sits around in a little pool of waste products.
* muscles release endorphins when stretched.

I could go with these - the feeling is sufficiently like when you pick a scab (I guess that releases endorphins?) or let the blood rush to your head.
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posted by [identity profile] saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com at 03:19pm on 01/02/2007
Allows you to bond more fully with your cat by copying her?
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posted by [identity profile] maryread.livejournal.com at 05:10pm on 01/02/2007
What an excellent question!
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