PNF As A Training System – More Than Just Stretching! Part IV
Procedures of PNF
The procedures (or techniques) used in PNF include:
1. Use of specific manual contacts with the body to facilitate and guide movement
2. Application of maximal tolerated resistance
3. The use of oral commands and non-verbal cues to facilitate correct movement
4. Eliciting of maximal stretch reflex in the lengthened muscle range (Starling’s Law)
5. Use of appropriate [...]
PNF As A Training System – More Than Just Stretching! Part III
The Fundamentals of PNF
PNF may be categorised in terms of five P-factors: Principles, Procedures, Patterns, Positions and Postures, with joint Pivots and Pacing (Timing) as important sub-categories. The methods comprising these factors were formulated from findings on neuromuscular development, such as the functional evolution of all movement from motor immaturity to motor maturity in the [...]
PNF As A Training System – More Than Just Stretching! Part II
PNF and the Neuromuscular Reflexes
PNF makes extensive use of the different reflexes which serve to protect the body, stabilise and mobilise it for action under a wide variety of circumstances. As we have already learned, plyometric methods recruit the myotatic stretch reflex to activate the muscles after a strong eccentric shock phase. There are many [...]
PNF As A Training System – More Than Just Stretching! Part I
Strength training is often regarded as a discipline confined largely to the gymnasium or sports field. Unfortunately, this can obscure the fact that it can and does appear in other situations which have little direct connection with sport.
In particular, PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) contains many useful techniques which can play an important role in the [...]
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