Stretching is KILLING Your Gains (BIG MISTAKE!)

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Stretching, when done the right way at the wrong time can absolutely be killing your gains. The issue is that many people do not know the difference between active and static stretching and the impact that doing one over the other before your workout can be having on your strength and ultimately your size gains. In this video, I’m going to show you why you should not do static stretching that you hold for any length of time before you train if you want to get maximum muscle growth and strength.

The issue boils down to neural efficiency. When you perform any movement, it doesn’t matter if it is something you would define as an exercise, your body has a stored pattern for accomplishing it. It does this in order to create movement efficiency. If I drop a pen on the ground and I bend to pick it up, your body doesn’t have to think about every single joint component of motion that is needed to get you down to the ground. Instead, it thinks of the “squat” movement in general and is able to instantly help you down to the floor without wasting any time.

When you perform static stretching of muscles that are going to be trained in your workout that day, you are negatively interfering with your stored engrams or motor patterns. While increasing flexibility and the length of a muscle can be a very good thing long term, doing stretches just prior to your workout that temporarily do this can have this associated downside that winds up costing you gains from your workouts.

The length tension relationship between muscles is something that you have that is unique to you and different from one muscle to the next. While not all length tension relationships are optimal, it is still what your body is used to and what is being used by it when calling on the stored motor pattern when performing a movement. Static or passive stretching before a workout will temporarily disrupt these patterns by affecting the actin and myosin cross bridging.

If you were going to use this method of warming up for a workout, you would then have to spend a significant amount of time prior to starting your training just to attempt to re-integrate the movements to better match up to the engrams stored for that movement pattern or exercise. In this case, I would suggest doing two or three light sets of each of the exercises you were going to do in that workout after completing the static stretching routine. This could add at least a half an hour to your workout when you account for the stretching and the re-integration.

There is a better way. You can instead opt to perform active or dynamic stretching for the muscles that are going to be involved in the exercises you are about to perform that day. These are movement stretches that take your joints actively into new ranges without ever holding for any length of time. The disruption to the muscles is greatly minimized and your ability to feel loose and perform at a high level is maintained.

That said, static stretching is still vital and has a place in your routine. The best thing to do is do your stretches for the muscles that you worked that day, later on at night before you go to bed. When you sleep, your body heals itself and the muscles that were trained tend to heal a bit shorter. You can lessen this shortening effect by performing the static stretches just before laying down. When you wake up the next morning you should not only feel more loose but you will likely have less muscle soreness as well.

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long story short, stretch after a workout and warm up before a workout.

JeremyHansenbluekid
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After watching Jeff's videos I'm convinced I'm not even living my life correctly.

handsomesquidward
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Always said it
Best way is
1) Warm Up (general and Joints specific)
2) Workout
3) Stretching

emanuelelamattina
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Next video ' Gains are killing your gains'

ShahrukhDj
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When you think you're doing everything right then Jeff has to come and ruin it all

TheXzgamerXz
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Next video: Working out is killing your gains

SeanKosari
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Next video "Breathing is killing your gains"

starmorpheus
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Watching youtube videos is killing your gains.
Me: *killing my gains*
Jeff: You're killing your gains wrong.

uchibenkei
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Thanks Jeff I just stopped my training.

doremi
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I don’t think Jeff said “don’t stretch”, he just said “don’t stretch right before strength training” I personally like to stretch after workouts

thanieltu
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If anyone is condused, what he is trying to say is: Dynamic Stretching BEFORE your workout and Static Stretching AFTER your workout

aaronpegany
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In Soviet Russia, the gains are killing you!

KawdoruTaon
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Never, ever, stretch before a workout. Warm up before a workout. Stretch after a workout. This is what ol' boy is trying to tell you newbies and he is 100 percent right.

GnosticCushite
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Getting Ready for the gym :
Alright Let's do some stretching now
**youtube notification pops**
Hey! Its a Athlean-X upload
Let's see what it..what the Jeffff

ishbanyadav
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Next video: *STOP GOING TO THE GYM* - JEFF

manuelmanuel
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And here I thought stretching IS the warm up....my whole life has been a lie.

Stringfreak
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i was so happy when he whipped out the muscle marker again but then he just put it back like wtf jeff

pHilL
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Damn people ... He specifically says static stretching BEFORE working out... 1:10 pay attention. Also 2:50 - Static stretching IS good, just not before the workout

ahndz
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exercise: exists

jeff cavaliere: im abt to end this mans whole career

Kosoals
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I’m a registered yoga teacher. Some of my clients are bodybuilders, some are power lifters. This video is great, very informative, and I hope people watch it all the way through rather than just reading the title, which is TERRIBLY misleading. Warm up before, then lift, then stretching is an absolute must. There are different kinds of yoga. Yin yoga is the perfect post workout for bodybuilders; I guarantee it will actually maximize your gains by helping you heal, stay resilient, and increase myofascial space when done properly. Stretching will not kill your gains, that’s ridiculous. Stretch after you lift if you want to get bigger without hurting yourself.

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