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 [...]
Strength Training Methods – Part II
It is tempting to attempt to devise a single extensive flowchart to categorise and interrelate all of the better known methods of resistance training, but the extent of overlap between the different methods makes the final result logically tedious, unattractive and largely unusable. Instead, it is simpler to organise the different methods as a loosely [...]
Strength Training Methods – Part I
Here is an extract from Chapter 7
The preceding chapters have extracted many of the principles, means and methods of strength training, but it cannot be claimed that the task of presenting an exhaustive holistic system is complete. Many further steps haveto be taken to produce an integrated system of strength conditioning, guided by thorough research [...]
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