Flexibility
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- Created on: 04-01-16 15:57
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- Flexibility
- Definition
- The range of motion around a joint or series of joints.
- Static Flexibility
- The range of motion without taking into account the speed of movement
- Dynamic Flexibility
- The range of motion taking into account the speed of movement reflecting the joint's resistance to movement
- Factors Affecting Flexibility
- Joint Shape
- Length/ Elasticity of Connective Tissues
- Muscle Length/ Elasticity
- Type of Joint
- Gender
- Nerves
- Muscle Mass
- Temperature
- Hypermobility
- Flexibility Training
- Age
- Elasticity
- Tests
- Sit & Reach Test
- Person places feet against a specific box with legs straight & knees locked. Subject reaches forward and over the box, pushing a straight object as far as possible along a set scale.
- Goniometry
- Use of a specific protractor in order to measure the angle through which a given joint rotates through.
- Sit & Reach Test
- Flexibility Training
- Static Stretching
- Unassisted with the performer actively completing a voluntary static contraction of an agonist muscle.
- Ballistic Stretching
- Use of momentum to move a joint freely through to its extreme end of range of point of resistance.
- Dynamic Stretching
- More controlled version of ballistic stretching.
- PNF Stretching
- Aimed at inhibiting the stretch reflex mechanism in order to increase flexibility
- Adaptations & Benefits
- Increased Elasticity/ length of muscle.
- Increased resting length of muscle
- Muscle spindles adapt to the increased length reducing the stimulus to the stretch reflex.
- Increased RoM at a joint before the stretch reflex is inhibited.
- Increased potential for dynamic and static flexibility.
- Increased distance & efficiency for muscles to create force and acceleration
- Static Stretching
- Definition
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