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Hi Alois
After having recently suffered a lower back injury during competition, I was interested to read the following article about the benefits of dynamic over static stretching:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112pewarm.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
As a coach, have you heard about this new thinking in warm-up stretches, and do you have any suggestions on how these can be applied for table tennis?
Cheers
Ji-Soo
Hi Ji-Soo,
Thaks for that link. It makes interesting reading. This guy certainly has better qualifications than I have in the area. I think I will let people make their own judgement about static stretches.
I think a typical warm up of some jogging shuttles and various movement involving table tennis specific movement followed by some stretching would be most appropriate. Wheteher these are static or dynamic stretches I will need to look into further.
Thanks again. If any of our readers ahve any thoughts or insights please let us know.
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