Kines 163: Flexibility
An overview of flexibility and different techniques to gain this skill
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Topics of this game:
- Slow-sustained, can be passive or active
- Requires fast and repetitive bouncing motion
- functional-based stretching exercises
- has carryover to hurdling, gymnastics, and martial arts
- Attempts to elicit a GTO response
- forward, backward and side lunges, inchworm, arm circles
- bouncing down and up to touch the toes
- gradual lengthening through tolerable ROM passive or active
- partner required (must be careful; should avoid pushing the relaxed limb too far)
- Moving your leg forward, flexion of the leg at the hip while standing
- How long should stretches be held for?
- How often is it recommended we stretch for maintenance?
- When is a good time to dedicate for flexibility training?
- How long should I stretch for if I am prone to stretching injuries?
- What is the least recommended mode of stretching?
- What anatomical structure are we trying to elicit a response from?
- When would the GTO be a useful anatomical feature?
- What is an advantage of PNF stretching?
- Why must one be careful when trying PNF stretching with an inexperienced partner
- What kind of contraction does the person stretching undergo to make PNF effective?
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