A method for stretch-blowing containers of preforms in a blow-molding station of a blow-molding machine, where a stretching bar is adjusted during a stretching process via an electric servomotor by taking along the preform bottom until it contacts a mold cavity bottom of a blow mold, and where in the final phase or at the end or after termination of the stretching process the force transmitted by the servomotor to the stretching bar is reduced in a controlled manner by a maximum force. A stretch-blowing machine, including an electronic programmable control unit having an input section for programming a fixed or a variable reduction of the force the servomotor transmitted in a final phase or upon termination or after termination of each stretching process to the stretching bar with regard to a maximum force and a fixed or a variable period of time for the force reduction and/or a fixed or a variable force reduction waiting time.