Chapter 5: Getting to the core of class offerings

Question 1

Common principles of a warm up

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Dynamic movement, ROM movements, rehearsal movements

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Static Stretching

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Slowly moving a muscle group to a point of minor discomfort and then holding that stretch for 10-30 seconds

Question 2

Dynamic stretching

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moving parts of the body through a full ROM several times while gradually increasing the reach and/or speed of movement in a controlled manner

Question 3

Ballistic Stretching

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Bouncing or jerky movement to use the momentum of the body to reach the muscle’s ROM limits. May produce a powerful stretch reflex that counteracts the muscle lengthening and could possibly lead to tissue injury- not used for GEN POP