Spas and Hottubs Stretching

One of the best ways to stretch muscles is to warm the body first in spas and hottubs. This is another benefit of Island Escape and Baja hot tubs. If the muscles aren’t warm, then there is lack of blood flow and circulation going on, therefore Island Escape and Baja hot tubs help this process by warming the body and getting the circulation moving. The buoyancy of spas and hottubs water decreases the weight on the body, which makes stretching easier, movements less painful, allows earlier involvement to prevent surgery or injury, works on stability and balance muscles and allows for daily active involvement.

The following are some advantages of spas and hottubs stretching:

Prior to Sports Activities: This will improve circulation and blood flow throughout the body. In turn, this will allow the muscles and the body to move more easily and comfortably.
During Sports Activities: After stretching muscles in Island Escape or Baja hot tubs, you can tell that your agility has improved and you’ll have better balance and coordination. In sports, this will make you a better athlete and less likely to have an injury.
Post Sports Activities: Stretching in spas and hottubs will ensure rapid recovery time and make you feel much less sore than if you didn’t stretch.
During Sports Training: This Island Escape and Baja hot tubs stretching helps cure muscle imbalances. A muscle imbalance is caused when some muscles are more warmed up and ready for movement and exercise than others. Daily activities do not need the same extension and assortment of movements your muscles get during sports. Therefore, if your muscles are not stretched equally, they are said to be not balanced. Muscle imbalance makes you less coordinated and flexible, therefore it can assist in injury such as a pulled or strained muscle.

There are two main types of muscle stretching that you can do in spas and hottubs. The first is called static muscle stretching. This is the type of stretching people most commonly know. It is where you hold a stretching position for a number of seconds in order to increase your flexibility. This works well in Island Escape spas and Baja hot tubs and the spas and hottubs hot water. This type of stretching you don’t want to apply too much pressure to your muscles and joints and you also want to be aware of your body’s automatic stretch reflex and to not overexert from there. The other type of stretching is known as dynamic muscle stretching. This type of stretching gradual extension of the length you can stretch, but only in one direction at a time. This type is great for Baja hot tubs since you do not move in short fast movements for this type of stretching, you want to go for distance, so go slow.

Overall, it is recommended to do twice daily Island Escape or Baja hot tubs sessions for about thirty minutes each session. This is beneficial to do in spas and hottubs first thing in the morning in order to loosen up muscles and then you can do some non strenuous exercise. Then later, at the end of the day, you can follow up with water massage in the Baja hot tubs to relax any muscle tension or spasms to feel completely relaxed.