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  2. Muscle cramps are a pain. These expert-approved tips ... - AOL

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    Muscle cramps could also potentially stem from a nerve problem (such as nerve compression), exercising in the heat, a lack of stretching, muscle fatigue, body stress, medication side effects or ...

  3. Stretching - Wikipedia

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    Standard dynamic stretches typically involve slow and controlled active contraction of muscles. An example of such a dynamic stretch is lunges. Another form of dynamic stretching is ballistic stretching, which is an active stretch that involves bouncing or swinging back and forth at a high speed in order to take a muscle beyond its typical ...

  4. The Morning Stretch Routine Physical Therapists Wish You Did ...

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    “A big benefit of stretching is that it helps get our body out of postures it’s been stuck in,” says Kelcie VanGampleare, P.T., D.P.T., a spokesperson for the American Physical Therapy ...

  5. Active stretching - Wikipedia

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    Active stretching stimulates and prepares muscles for use during exercise. Active stretches not only stretch the muscles and tissues, but prepares the muscles for the action by activating and warming them up or a stretch that requires you to retain a posture without any help other than the strength of your agonist's muscles is known as an ...

  6. Warming up - Wikipedia

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    Swimmers perform squats prior to entering the pool in a U.S. military base, 2011 Steven Gerrard warming up prior to a football match in 2010.. A warm-up generally consists of a gradual increase in intensity in physical activity (a "pulse raiser"), joint mobility exercise, and stretching, followed by the activity.

  7. From Cardio to Yoga: How to Start Workin' on Your Fitness - AOL

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    Bring your heart rate back down after a workout by stretching, walking, and sipping water. 6) Rest. Give your body a chance to recover regularly with intentionally lighter workout days or rest days.

  8. Muscle tone - Wikipedia

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    Normally, people are unaware of their muscle tone in their daily activities. The body maintains the balance between the tone of flexor and extensor muscle groups. Sometimes, in normal, healthy people, that tone is lost either in flexors or extensor muscle groups in isolation, temporarily and intermittently resulting in muscle cramps. Treating ...

  9. Cramp - Wikipedia

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    Cramps are different from muscle contracture, which is also painful and involuntary, but which is electrically silent. The main distinguishing features of cramps from dystonia are suddenness with acute onset of pain, involvement of only one muscle and spontaneous resolution of cramps or their resolution after stretching the affected muscle. [2]