Chapter 4 Training and Conditioning • Principles of conditioning – Warm-up and cool-down – Motivation – Overload (SAID) – Consistency – Progression – Intensity – Specificity – Individuality – Minimize stress – Safety
Flexibility and Stretching • Limited by? ? ? • Agonist vs antagonist • Types of stretching techniques – Ballistic – Static – PNF • Slow-reversal-hold-relax • Contract-relax • Hold-relax
Neurophysiologic Basis of Stretching • Stretch Reflex – Muscle spindles
Muscle Spindle • Extrafusal vs. Intrafusal fibers • extrafusal = skeletal muscle fibers • intrafusal = muscle spindle fibers • Detects length and rate of length
Muscle Spindles • Intrafusal fibers – located within muscle belly – stretching a muscle also stretches the muscle spindle – most sensitive to rapid stretching
Golgi Tendon Organ – located within tendons – Sensitive to excessive tension due to stretch – Most sensitive to excessive tension due to muscle contraction – excessive tension will cause a reflexive inhibition
Type of muscle contraction • • Eccentric Concentric Isometric Econcentric