04/02/2022
➡️ Stretches can loosen up shortened and tight muscles, tendons, vessels and nerves, open-up and mobilize joints, and with that stimulate and improve our body’s range-of-motion capabilities, and our immune and circulatory system.
↪️ Our circulatory system (also called cardiovascular system) is one of the most important components of our body, roughly consisting of lungs, blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Depending on the definition, the circulatory system also includes the lymphatic system, which circulates lymph and is connected to the bloodstream.
🔀 In any case, this interconnected circulatory network supplies the tissues in our bodies with oxygen, antibodies, and other vital nutrients and agents, transports hormones, and removes waste products (detoxification). In fact, without a proper functioning circulatory system we get seriously ill, or at the minimum suffer from various health disorders, discomforts or dis-eases.
📉 Research on stretching has shown that regular and structural stretching keeps muscles strong, long, lean, elastic and flexible, and this, apart from the benefits mentioned above already, achieves muscle tone, prevents muscle and joint injuries and joint pains, prevents squeezing of nerves and associated pains, and improves standing, moving and postural balance.
💙 Stretch 💙
