The achievement of a stunning physique is what every athlete or muscle builder will be proud to display among his peers. It gives a good feeling if you can eventually reach this level of peak performance in your muscle building endeavour. Through various rigorous exercises and proper diets this can be done. However, before the real workouts, you will need stretches to avoid damage to your muscles.

Stretches allows for the flexibility and elasticity of the muscles before the real workouts can take place. The following are the stretches that can be taken up by any serious muscle sculptor, passive stretches, static stretches, isometric, ballistic, dynamic, reach ups, and so on. You can also add other stretches not mentioned here to help the muscles. Among the stretches mentioned above, the ballistic exercise is the most recent. This stretching exercise encourages the thrusting of the body and allowing much energy to relax and loosen the body’s legs. This allows for free movement of the muscles. Some of the stretches are.

Active stretches increases energy and promote movements or dynamics. This stretches relaxes the muscles and allows free movements.

Ballistic stretches brings flexibility and movement to the muscles, limbs and arms.

Isometric stretches is a form of stretching exercise where one presses his muscles against an object to get good results. While doing Isometrics, the muscles are under pressure and thus the muscles are restricted from contraction which is an essential muscle feature. Consequently, there is a great reduction in the flow of blood through the veins and arteries.

Personally, I strongly would not recommend Isometric stretches, especially if one is having a history of heart problems in the past. This could result in heart failure for such one.

Earlier, I mentioned one of the most recent stretching exercises, while it is good to use that in the stretching exercise, experience has shown that the older form of stretches are more effective than the new ones. You will need to understand your body and think of the best option for you. For detailed stretches procedure, read free articles on muscle sculpting from the web or your local library and start your exercises as soon as you can.