Flexibility Training Concepts Flashcards
(13 cards)
The body’s connective tissue that includes muscles and fascia.
Myofascial
The process in which the body seeks the path of least resistance during functional movements.
Relative flexibility
When an agonist receives a signal to contract, its functional antagonist also receives an inhibitory signal allowing it to lengthen.
Reciprocal Inhibition
The neuromuscular phenomenon that occurs when synergists take over function for a weak or inhibited prime mover (agonist).
Synergistic Dominance
When a muscle’s resting length is too short or too long, reducing the amount of force it can produce.
Altered length-tension relationship
Neurological signal from the muscle spindle that causes a muscle to contract to prevent excessive lengthening.
Stretch reflex
The process by which neural impulses that sense tension are greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles.
Autogenic inhibition
Consistently repeating the same pattern of motion over long periods of time that can lead to dysfunction or injury.
Pattern overload
A cycle whereby tissue trauma will induce inflammation, muscle spasm, adhesions, altered neuromuscular control, and muscle imbalances.
Cumulative injury cycle
States that soft tissue models along the line of stress.
Davis’s Law
Pain or discomfort often felt 24 to 72 hours after intense exercise or unaccustomed physical activity.
Delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS)
A specific situation where a medication, procedure, or exercise should be avoided because it may prove to be harmful to the individual.
Contraindications
A type of stretching that uses agonists and synergists to dynamically move the joint into a range of motion; includes holding the stretched position for 1–2 seconds and repeating for 5–10 repetitions.
Active Stretching
