FLEXIBILITY TRAINING
Flexibility training is the most overlooked components of conditioning. Despite recent and ongoing debates that are questioning its role in injury prevention, athletes of all fields will still gain a lot from a stretching regime; flexibility of muscles and joints play an essential part in many athletic movements.
Flexibility Training Specialized
At Chicago Tri-fitness, Chicago’s premiere fitness and performance training facility, there are numerous flexibility training exercises. With Tri-Fitness Chicago’s emphasis on sports performance, they know that each sport requires different flexibility training exercises to yield the best results. For example, dynamic stretches are used as part of warm up while static stretches are used for increasing one’s range of motion. Static stretching exercises are best performed when the body is completely fatigued, often at the end of a competitive game. Most professional teams around the world often do the static stretching after major competitions.
Flexibility Training Offers a Number of Health Benefits
One of the benefits that flexibility training offers is that it may restrict how far one can turn the head. If, during a tackle, one’s head is forced beyond its normal range of movement, it stretches and puts stress on the neck muscles and tendon. Ironically, static stretch just prior to an event may be detrimental to performance and offer protection from injury. Muscle tightness can be reduced before training or competing by utilizing dynamic stretching. For these reasons, a coaches’ advice to athletes is to do a few dynamic stretches instead of static stretches during warm ups. Competitive sports may demand quick actions which may lead to unbalanced responses. Part of the results one gleams from Chicago Tri-Fitness is body control though flexibility training.
Some other benefits of flexibility training include an increase in body response and muscle relaxation, both of which may have positive implications on one’s skills and performance.
Another benefit of static stretching is that it helps reduce muscle soreness after exercise. This is because it involves a slow, gradual and controlled elongation of the muscle through the full range motion. The basic rule of thumb is to hold the stretch for 15 to 30 seconds in the furthest comfortable position. It also improves posture and muscular balance.
One can get advice on how to properly execute flexibility training at Chicago Tri-Fitness. This is also available on their website. It takes much effort to achieve and maintain good posture in the activities of daily living and sports competition; however, all efforts to increase performance are helped with flexibility training.
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