3-D "MOSTABILITY:" The Keys to Functional Flexibility
Gary Gray
- Introduction
- Why it comes first
- Understanding biomechanics of the human body
- Strength – cardio – flexibility: Inseparable triad
- Controversy = incomplete understanding
- Why flexibility – to function, move and rest better
- 3-D function – 3-D flexibility
- Hip flexor mobilization – first ask, “What does the hip flexor do?”
- 3-D “mostability”
- What does that muscle (and the nerves that feed it) do in function?
- Dangers of lengthening the muscle non-functionally
- Getting to the hip flexor – ground reaction forces from the bottom up
- Points of Transformation – lengthening in at least two planes of motion prior to concentric contraction
- Eccentric reflexive transformative response – eccentric expansion allows greater concentric expression
- Loading and exploding
- The power of asking WHY?
- Static vs. Dynamic
- The truth about stretching ultimately must begin with the truth about function
This audio is part of the PTontheNET.com author symposium "The Truth About Stretching: When, Why and How - PART 2."
Magedera, Carl |
25 Apr 2011, 13:44 PM
I love the way that this flies in the face about what I have been taught and what I have told my clients for the last three years. Whilst it is not actually saying it's wrong, it could be saying that it is not effective enough and is not based on an understanding of how and why the body moves as it does. Such a complex subject which both Chip and Gary are modestly aware of, and yet we have to start somewhere. Two questions I would like to raise are how can nerves actually be stretched, as Gary suggests? And also how do we modify the ground reaction system?
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