Hi,

Thank you very much for your reply and all the information you have given which you refer to your personal experience with the atheletes.

It is understood and we are all aware, that this type of warm up and cool down sessions which you have described are being practiced, but my question again was, on what basis did you conclude that 5-10 minutes of jogging should be done to start off and then end with static stretching for a certain time. What was the rationale for prescribing that set amount of time for which the jogging and other activites should be performed either during training or during the actual competition on the field.

In terms of static stretching when you say the muscle should be stretched, how do you determine the force required to stretch the muscles and if done so is it done in the right way. I mean are we really stretching the muscle or just the fascia or the surrounding structres which may have a low threshold to the static force applied, which could be a limiting factor for further stretch. Alternatively it could be excessive stretch which might have damaged the tissue.

Well, I do understand its a broad topic for discussion but there should be something to start off where all our efforts together might lead to narrower and finer aspects of the related topic which might be of interest for some of them and also helpful to the remaining.

So why not we look into the factors which determine/ criteria for prescribing/ the rationale for performing these warm-up and cool down sessions. I also kindly request the other members of this group to actively participate in this discussion and make it more interesting with your expert ideas, views, experiences, comments and suggestions justifying the statement made so that we will have a strong evidence to support our discussion.

I am sure together we can and we will be able to find an answer eventually to all the questions everybody had in their minds and also who might have developed certain questions during the discussion; apart from me.

I hope it sounds sensible enough and would be helpful in some way or the other.

Cheers,
Viplav