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Overview
In a suitable muscular work should be considered a variety of details not only to get the desired results but to avoid injury, hence the importance of paying attention to the flexibility and resilience , two concepts should not be confused.
When designing a specific training plan is needed whenever it suits the capacity of each body individually, different forms exist today, many of them sophisticated to measure the flexibility and elasticity.
Flexibility:
Flexibility and elasticity Thus, flexibility refers to the degree of amplitude of a joint and represents the physical ability to execute a movement with full range of motion, always within individual anatomical limits to avoid injury. Read more
Moreover, the flexibility serves to greatly increase the efficiency of the movement and thus the athlete achieves a lower energy waste in the execution of each of its activities, is essential both to prevent and to overcome injuries and defects posture, while reducing muscle tension.
Elasticity:
While muscle elasticity is a special capacity possessed muscles relax and thus achieve recover its initial length after making a contraction, always depending on the initial length of the muscle fibers, since the greater length of the larger fibers will be the movement of contraction and relaxation, providing greater muscle elasticity.
Elasticity is not improved with exercises effort but through stretching of muscle fibers when warm-ups are made.
As the muscle tone, it corresponds to the internal voltage at which the muscles are subjected, thereby enabling both the body and skeletal several segments maintain a proper balance when they remain immobile as when they are moving.
An important fact to consider in relation to muscle tone is that it is controlled by the autonomic nervous system and therefore also involved in body balance.
People who come from a prolonged physical inactivity tend to suffer from a lack of muscle tone, called hypotonia different situation in which there are those who regularly perform physical exercise as this helps maintain muscle tone and prevent problems.
Moreover, the tension of the muscles in your legs will always favor the momentum of blood in the lower limbs to the heart and the tension of the abdominal muscles contribute to a fixation and adequate protection of internal muscles.
A training plan tailored to the individual capacity of each person differ final results and hence make measurements flexibility is important, bearing in mind that flexibility is always specific to each joint articular.
When measurements of elasticity and flexibility are made are also taken into account factors such as age and sex of the athlete, because most women manages to make a move after a short training time while a young man will take as much time to reach the same result.
Final Words:
Having the information on the physical type of athlete related to its flexibility is very beneficial for people who carry out tests with difficulty because it allows rightly define the type of routine that can be included in the training plan and optimal results.
