Things You Should Know About Stretching Before fitness training, one must give significance to doing warm- up or stretching exercises to help accidents or to enhance the affair during the training. There are also a number of preventative measures and tips to serve as guidelines when doing fitness exercises. Then are some of them. 1. To increase your inflexibility and to avoid injuries, stretch before and after drill. nearly everyone knows that stretching before drill prevents injuries during the exercises, but only many people know that stretching after drill, when muscles are still warm, can increase inflexibility. 2. Hold your stretching position for further than 60 seconds to increase inflexibility. While holding your position for 20 seconds is enough for warm ups, holding each position for at least 60 seconds will develop the body's inflexibility. 3. Don't go into a stretching position also incontinently return to the relaxed position, and do it constantly. This is more mee...