[Artemisia] Artemisia Digest, Vol 57, Issue 13

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From: "Olan Mikkelsen" <pan_landolf at hotmail.com>
To: <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Artemisia Digest, Vol 57, Issue 13


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> > > Message: 8> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:15:42 +0000> From: Gene Mealey 
> > > <rapierfighter at hotmail.com>> Subject: [Artemisia] Possible Uprising 
> > > Class for fighters?> To: <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>> 
> > > Message-ID: <BAY139-W545B19AEBDF9B10F0A96F3B1AD0 at phx.gbl>> 
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > One of the biggest 
> > > things I've seen on the field is a lack of stretching among fighters.
> <snip> I have several articles that question the utility of stretching in 
> injury prevention. Two from university journals of medicine (Cornell and 
> Mnnesota) and one from U.S News & World Report. But this is a topic best 
> debated on Militaris.
>
> Sir Landolf, Baron Witkowski

I'm not on Militaris, but I've been doing a LOT of reading and listening 
about fitness and cardio workouts and such in the last 6 months, and what's 
actually recommended now, before intense exercise, is a brief cardio workout 
(like, say, 5 mins of fast walking or jumping jacks or some such that's 
designed to get you warmed up and your heart rate elevated a bit), and then, 
stretching and a cool down *when you're done.*
--Maire