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When you think about gain muscle, stretching is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But did you know that stretching plays a role essential in building muscle?

Every muscle in your body is enclosed in a bag of tough connective tissue called fascia. Fascia is important to keep the muscles in your body instead.

But your fascia may also contain your muscle growth. Think for a moment your muscles. Your coach and feed them properly. They want to grow and grow, but something holding them back. They have no room to grow!

Because fascia is so tough, that does not allow that the muscle room to expand. It's like stuffing a large pillow into a small pillowcase. The size of the muscles change regardless wonÂ't of how hard you train or how well you eat because the connective tissue around your muscles is constricting muscle inside.

The best example is the muscle calf. The leg is riddled with fascia because of its enormous weight bearing functions in the body. Because of this fascia that many trainers have great difficulty in the development their calves.

The solution: stretching.

Using the above example pillowcase, imagine you can expand the size of the sheath pillow pulling. Suddenly, the pillow within has more room and will expand to fill the new space.

By stretching the muscles, under certain conditions, can actually stretch your fascia and muscles more room to grow.

The key to effective fascial stretching is the pump. The best time to stretch to expand bags that hold the muscles when the muscles are pumped full of blood.

When your muscles are fully pumped up, they press against the fascia. By stretching hard at that time, increasing the pressure on the fascia greatly, which can lead to the expansion of the fascia.

One of the main reasons of Arnold Schwarzenegger had developed an incredible chest, he completed his training chest workouts with dumbell flyes, an exercise that emphasizes the position stretching the pectoral muscles. It pumps up his chest covered in blood during the workout then do flyes, holding the stretch in the bottom of the flight. This gave the chest to incredible proportions room.

Fascial stretching is more rigorous than regular stretching but the results can be surprising. When you stretch enough to cause the fascia to expand, you really feel it! When you are stretching the fascia, you should feel a tugging sensation Powerful and pressure as the muscle works against the fascia to expand.

Be sure not to stretch so hard that cause the muscle to break or harm himself. Quickly learn to distinguish the difference between a good stretch and a stretch of bad. You should not feel sharp pain, just a steady pull.

Hold each stretch for 20 to 30 seconds as you must give your fascia time to be affected by stretching. Stretch hard like this when you have a muscle fully pumped, as you must give your fascia a reason to expand. If arenÂ't muscles pumped, just stretch normally.

Can find instructions for stretching at: http://www.fitstep.com/Library/Info/Stretching1.htm

A set of hard stretching after each set you do for a muscle group, besides the obvious advantages of increased flexibility may have a tremendous impact on the size of their muscles and their ability to continue growing.

About The Author

Nick Nilsson is Vice President of BetterU, Inc., an online exercise, fitness, and personal training company. Check out his latest eBook “The Best Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of” at http://www.thebestexercises.com or visit http://www.fitstep.com. You can contact him at betteru@fitstep.com or subscribe to BetterU News, his fitness newsletter at betterunews@fitstep.com.

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