Talk:Dynamic stretching

Expanding the stretching articles
A lot of red links on this page, does anyone know if they might be redirected to existing articles or if they need to be created to explain these concepts? Although, there would be very many, considering how stublike this one is, perhaps it would be better to just have one big 'stretching' article and incorporate the different kinds into it? I'm not totally sure, because the stretching is probably not needing any more size, yet I would not know what to call it otherwise. Tyciol (talk) 21:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Bad article
For a subject that is that important with all the people saying that dynamic stretching is far better that static stretching, I don't understand why this article is that bad. All the examples are merely copy&pasted from the only article used for the exercises and you really get the idea that this might be the only source in the world where dynamic stretching exercises are written about. There is not a single image, animation or video showing a dynamic stretching exercise and there is very little information about how one should do these specific exercises (how could there be any information, since the only article used is just copied here), but there are inconsistent information:

The article says "Dynamic stretching works by the practitioner gently propelling their muscles towards their maximum range of motion. It is very important to note the practitioner should not use jerky, forced movements".

Then, in the exercises there are things like "While walking forward, hug your left knee into your chest" (which is a forced movement, since you pull on your leg, once it is up at your chest; Thank God btw I know this exercise, cause I would not have understood it otherwise using only this text). Or what about "bring your left heel and swing it back towards your right hand in a reverse twisting motion"? How is swinging the leg "gently" and how is swinging it "in a reverse twisting motion" not the "jerky, forced movements" which have been stated as "forbidden"?

Unfortunately I am no expert in this subject, so I hope that someone that knows this stuff can improve the article, cause write now it pretty bad and uninformative, especially the part about the exercise examples, which are often badly explained (for example: How is "butt kicks" "similar" to "high knees", as stated in the "butt kicks" section? One is for moving the knees up high and in the other one the knees stand down and only the lower leg is moving. I don't really see any similarity except the fact that in both cases the legs are used. And what is the difference between "butt kicks" and "quad walk"? Reading the "explanation" I don't understand how these are two different exercises). --78.54.16.250 (talk) 14:05, 6 August 2010 (UTC)