Types Of Flexibility And Physical Activity

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Static stretches are intended to improve flexibility by holding a specific movement. For the feet and calves there is the advanced plantar flexor stretch. For the knees and things there are the advanced seated knee flexor stretch and advanced kneeling knee extensor stretch. The hips can be stretch with external rotator and back extensor stretch, along with the advanced seated hip adductor stretch. The arms, wrists and hands can be stretch with the elbow and wrist flexor stretch, triceps brachii stretch, intermediate wrist extensor stretch and intermediate wrist flexor stretch. The shoulder, back and chest can be stretch with the intermediate shoulder flexor stretch, shoulder adductor, protractor and elevator stretch, along with the shoulder adductor and extensor stretch (Nelson & Kokkonen,

INCREASES FLEXIBILITY AND CIRCULATION: Providing a gentle stretch to the tendons and ligaments in the

Is stretching a positive or negative thing for athletes? I readed two passages that tells you that if stretching is a positive or negative thing to do. The first passage opinion in“Stretching: The Right Way’’ uses a way to think that stretching is a positive way because it said that a “rubber band are like muscles’’. The author shows how stretching is the best if you don’t want injuries, in the passage it said that ‘‘muscles are like a rubber band if you slowly stretch the rubber band until it can go not further and then hold it for a few seconds the rubber band will not become looser and it will snap’’.

Stretching, post exercise, is also a recovery technique used to combat the detrimental effects of exercise. According the study conducted by Beckett, Schneiker, Wallman, Dawson, and Guelfi (2009), a static stretching regimen of the lower extremity prime movers resulted in slower sprint times for test participants. Results also revealed that stretching had detrimental effects on the repeated sprint ability test. This study suggested that static stretching did not have a significant impact on athletic performance or post activity recovery. Participants who performed static stretching during their recovery period all recorded slower sprint and repeated sprint test times. Conversely, Ray, Lago-Peñas, Casáis, and Lago-Ballesteros (2012), studied the effects of stretching (passive recovery) twenty-four hours post exercise, on subsequent testing for professional soccer players. The researchers concluded that static stretching improved performance on counter movement jump test for participants, but had no effect on 20 meter sprint times and agility testing. This researchers suggested that the evidence found within this study is inconclusive, there is no definitive way to decide if stretching had a positive impact on athlete recovery. Stretching, although used by many practitioners and proven to aid in injury prevention does not seem to have a positive or negative affect on recovery from the studies

Stretching is very important in working out because it prevents injury. A person will never do the same exercise two days in a row, this program was created to have all upper body one day and the next day all lower body. The reasoning for this method is because a person lifting should allow those muscles to rest and recovery. This program has been set to have at least two off days to allow the body to recover for the next workout. Chapter 3 PowerPoint states that, “Rest and Recovery, the body needs time to recover between training and overtraining can result in soreness and fatigue”. Rest days are very important since we place a large amount of strain on our muscles, tendons, bones, joints, and ligaments. Not allowing a person to have an off day is putting them in great risk of injury. As mentioned on the workout program, off days should be used for stretching and letting your body recover. According to the article, “7 Essentials Elements of Rest and Recovery” Kuhland states, “sleep, hydration, nutrition, posture, stretching, self-myofascial release, heat, ice, and compression, many people may not be aware there is a difference between rest and recovery or how to properly implement them both”. There are several types of stretches that can be done such as passive, active, ballistic, and static. A person who is training should do static stretching because it is slow movements into a stretch position that is being held.

Stretching allows you to increase muscle flexibility and joint range of motion. When your muscles are loosened and relaxed, your body can engage in movement easily without resistance and pain.

Static stretching refers to stretching that requires slow stretching the muscles and joints to fartherst point whithout causing pain. It is the type of stretch recommended when starting wrokout.

The aim of this research is to compare each of these stretches, dynamic, static, and no stretching and to examine the effect these different warm-up routines have on performance in the vertical jump test. In a recent study with female collegiate athletes (ages 19 and above), all athletes were tested for a total of three weeks and each had to fulfill three procedures with one session per week along with one week in-between sessions. There were no specific order in the stretching as each were tested with a “five-minute light jog as a warm-up, followed by 8 minutes of one of the stretching protocols” (Dalrymple, Davis, Dwyer & Moir, 2010, p.149). Following the warm-ups, athletes were given five attempts of the countermovement vertical jump test along with one minute rest periods. All jumps were recorded and according to the calculations of the jumps, “there were no significant differences between the static stretching, dynamic stretching and no stretching” (Dalrymple, Davis, Dwyer & Moir, 2010, p.149).

Many research studies have been conducted till date to investigate the effects of static stretching on lower limb force production and agility in athletes. As contrary to the popular belief, most of the research data suggest that static stretching immediately prior to a competition enhances the rate of injuries instead of reducing them. An acute bout of stretching does not improve force production and agility in basketball players. When maximal velocity contraction, power, jump height, jump force, and jump velocity were measured after static stretching, it was observed that the session

In a study performed on 60 healthy university students with no musculoskeletal conditions, Hyong and Kang2 found that passive hamstring stretching had a statistically significant increase in the participant cervical flexion and extension range of motion (ROM). The participants had measurements taken

pastime can support expand flexibility and strength of your joints. Nonetheless, it's predominant to just do as much endeavor as you can control without ache. Light pastime and stretching can help lower affliction in the joints to a best extent.

Some exercises do not lend themselves so much to stretching though. Would you want to let yourself get squashed by a barbell in a squat position for 60 seconds?

The most common types of exercise for older adults includes: aerobic, strength, balance, and flexibility. Out of the four exercise training modalities, flexibility is often down played as unimportant to fitness. Most exercise-physiology research on aging has only seemed to focus on cardiovascular health and muscle strength, but maintaining or improving flexibility should have at least same amount or more importance for function and quality of life in older adults (Holland et al., 2002). Flexibility training is comprised of stretching exercises utilized to maintain full ROM of joints in older adults who may experience limited joint mobility (Nelson et al., 2007). The purpose of flexibility training is to increase an older adult’s ROM that involves

The “sit and reach test” assesses one’s flexibility. Flexibility is an important aspect of health as it is the ability of your joints and body parts being able to perform day-to-day activities such as walking, lifting etc. Flexibility decreases as you age, therefore, it is important to include flexibility exercises in your daily workout regimen. The long term effects of flexibility is an improved posture, reduction of the soreness of muscles and decrease the risk of injury.