Originally Posted by boinker
Jacky/Bill,
You may also find this post useful:More thoughts on how growth occurs.
It delves into the science briefly and more importantly it’s practical implication. In a soundbyte - a slight stretch is useless as it doesent do sh*t. An extreme stretch is again useless as it might either cause rupture or condition the ligs etc to get firmer without gains (which seems to be what you are dealing with, definitely happened to me at some point). A medium stretch (now finding the sweet spot is entirely up to you and would come with practice.) would put enough pressure on the collagen tissues and when done consistently would increase elasticity to meet the new altered state also triggering the micro tears and the needed soreness. This of course was my take on the thread. I would highly recommend you give it a read and decide for yourself so you stretch incorporate stretching in your routine in a meaningful way. Hope this helps.
thanks for the quote, its definitely useful.
but in my case, I got firmed and decrease EQ with a really low force and short time, it’s like 30sec x 9 directions, even sometime I only jelq for 10 mins, it is slightly firmed.
but still, I gained 0.2cm per month with the stretching routine,
I ‘m not sure should I continue stretch or not,
but my EQ increases a lot without stretching.