Lifting Weights Can Increase Flexibility Similar to Stretching

Dylan Dacosta
In Fitness And In Health
4 min readMar 6, 2023

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Caveats apply, but this is good news for my fellow meatheads

I hate stretching. This is likely because I’m not naturally that flexible and we sapiens tend to enjoy doing what we’re good at.

Thankfully, some research has shown that static stretching isn’t mandatory to increase your range of motion.

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Dylan Dacosta
In Fitness And In Health

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