As the days and nights cool, many with muscular tension and pain will feel an increase in how tight their muscles feel. Cooler temperatures do promote constriction. Staying warm and adding heat can help your muscles stay looser.
Stretching after a warm shower is an easy way to use heat at home to enhance the positive effects of stretching. You can certainly use other heat sources like heating pads or hot packs for localized relief of an area, either as an aid in itself or along with stretching or self massage. (If you're dealing with an injury, however, you should apply ice in the early days following the trauma.)
At the studio, we'll be using our table warmer during these cooler months to help keep your muscles warm and relaxed!
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