Lecture 4: Warm ups Flashcards
Why should we warm up?
- Faster muscle contraction and relaxation of agonist and antagonist muscles
- Improvements in rate of force development and reaction time
- Improvements in muscle strength and power
- Lowered viscous resistance in muscles
- Improved O2 delivery
- Increased blood flow to active muscles
- Enhance metabolic reaction
Increased psychological preparedness for performance
Bohr effect
Higher temperatures facilitate oxygen release from hemoglobin and myoglobin thereby improving oxygen delivery to muscles
How many hours of conditioning and mobility work can be achieved in one year by simply doing a 10 min warm up before training?
50+
What is the most important aspect of coaching a warmup?
ENERGY
Warmup as a functional movement screen
Measuring how someones moves and applying a number to it and correcting their movements using a warmup
Example of warmups as a movement screen
Compound movement: shortened forward lunge pattern
What to fix: hip flexor mobility
Isolated corrective drill to apply to warmup: wall facing hip flexor
What are the benefits to a warmup?
Discuss injuries
Discuss school/life
Opportunity to explain the why behind what we do
Put athletes in position to display leadership skills
Can build hype
Prehab
Counteracting common injury producing movements with opposing strength and stability work
ex. rotator cuff injury in vball players so we do band pull aparts to strengthen rotator cuff
Weighted exercises warmup progression
Warmups used with the sets of a particular high velocity or weighted sets; working way up to heavy weight
Self myofascial release (SMR)
Soft tissue work to decrease lamination btwn tissues
Fascia
Soft tissue component of connective tissue system that permeates human body and is a part of body wide tensional force transmission system
Benefits of SMR
Increased short term flexibility that lasts for about 10 min
Consistency can improve flexibility over 2 weeks
Reduction in DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness)
Does SMR improve overall force production?
NO
How long should I be performing SMR?
20-60 seconds per position
Factors affecting flexibility
Joint structure
Age and sex
Muscle and connective tissue
Stretch tolerance
Neural control
Resistance training
Muscle bulk
Activity level
Joint structure and flexibility
Pivot, ball and socket, plane, hinges, saddle, condyloid; all have diff movement patterns
Age and sex and flexibility
Younger, female individuals tend to be more flexible
Muscles and connective tissue and flexbility
Muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, joint capsules and skin all effect elasticity and plasticity
Stretch tolerance and flexibility
Ability to tolerate stretch discomfort, regular stretching can improve this
Neural control and flexibility
Control of reflexive and conscious contraction from PNS and CNS determine ROM (muscle spindles and GTO)
Resistance training and flexibility
Training through a full ROM improves flexibility
Shortening your ROM can have inverse effect
Muscle bulk and flexibility
Greater cross-sectional area increases difficulty to have full ROM
Activity level and flexibility
Active people= greater ROM
Stability
Body’s ability to resist force, help transfer force in a compound movement
Mobility
Ability to produce a desired movement based on what a joint can do on its own
Freedom to get into end range of motion
Ability for a joint to move a full ROM actively
Joint by joint approach
Foot-stability
Ankle- mobility
Knee-stability
Hip- mobility
Lumbar spine- stability
Thoracic spine- mobility
Scapula- stability
Gleno-humeral joint- mobility
Elbow joint- stability