Stretch up workout vs Let's Stretch

Stretching training gives the body flexibility and significantly reduces the risk of injury. Tendons, ligaments and joints are involved in muscle interaction and the skeletal system during exercise. Stretching gives flexibility to the whole body. Enhanced and flexible ligaments, tendons and muscles increase the power – it is possible to perform more dynamic, powerful moves with greater load without risk of injury. After an intense workout, working muscles tense and contract. Regular, heavy exercises cause that the muscles stiffen and shorten, resulting in a limitation of the entire body’s locomotive scope. Growth of the muscles without stretching can cause pressure on the nerves and slow the flow of nerve impulses, and sometimes even their blockade. Regular trainings without stretching can lead to a permanent feeling of tension in your body, loss of energy, feeling of fatigue as well as muscle and joint pains.

Let's Stretch allows the user to quickly select a stretch routine and complete the stretches with a built in timer. Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com and yoga by Claire Jones from the Noun Project. Stretch descriptions are adaptations from yoga.com.