5. Make stretching possible with ligaments.
The ligaments allow you to stretch the amount that it will allow. This will protect your ligaments from tearing and causing an injury. A lot of times when people stretch, they try to stretch way beyond what their ligaments will allow so that they can become flexible quicker.
It can cause the ligaments to snap and prevent the person from getting any gains. He or she will have to go back to square one because whenever he or she stretches, the pain will be felt. If the person would have taken their time and stretched properly, he or she would be at where they needed to be now.
For instance, a person wanting to achieve splits can get splits by stretching slowly, but a lot of the times they are pushed into splits, which causes injury. Splits take a long time to achieve, but there is no need to force them.