Your physical health can be improved through physical activity, hopefully that isn’t ground breaking news? What types of physical activity should you do to improve or maintain your health? The idea is to create a balance, don’t focus all of your attention on one aspect and neglect the other parts.
The 5 Components of Health-Related Fitness are: Cardio-vascular Endurance, Muscular Strength & Endurance, Flexibility, and Body Composition. This post is all about the Range of Motion for each joint which directly impacts a person’s flexibility.
I focus clients movements on specific joints that humans poses and their are 13 major joints on the human kino-matic chain (starting at bottom up): ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and neck. With utilizing the way a joint moves, that can help to isolate-muscle and/or recruit more muscles for a specific task (exercise).
When stretching any part of our body it is important to already be warmed up, with our heart rate elevated and joints more lubricated. The idea is to perform stretches in sets and reps just like when lifting weights. Ideally, 3 sets per stretch is encourage with at least 30 seconds on task too. Muscles are located above and below all joints, so the focus should be to eventually stretch all the major muscles in our bodies.
Improve your circulation, impact your energy, feel better, all from simply taking time to move your joints in the very specific way, by STRETCHING to work on your component of health-related fitness called FLEXIBILITY!
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