NASM terms Flashcards
Core training-
Drawing-in maneuver
recruit the core stabilizers by drawing the navel toward the spine (local stabilization system).
Core training-
Bracing
Contracting the abdominals, lower back, and glutes together to stabilize the trunk (global movement system)
General Adaptation Syndrome
How the body responds and adapts to stress (3 stages)
- Alarm reaction
- Resistance development
- Exhaustion
General Adaptation Syndrome-
Alarm Reaction:
the initial reaction to a stressor, activates protective processes in the body
General Adaptation Syndrome
Resistance Development:
body increases the capacity to adapt to a stressor; once resistance occurs, additional stress is needed to produce a new response.
General Adaptation Syndrome-
Exhaustion
Stressor is too much or lasting too long to handle, causing a breakdown or injury
Corrective flexibility
Increases joint range of motion, improves muscle imbalances, and corrects altered joint motion; autogenic inhibition.
Used in all phases.
SMR (self-myofascial release) and static stretching
Active flexibility
Improves extensibility of soft tissue and increases neuromuscular efficiency; reciprocal inhibition
Used in phase 2-4
Active-isolated stretching
Functional Flexibility
maintains integrated, multiplanar soft tissue extensibility and optimal neuromuscular control, full ROM.
Use only in phase 5
Dynamic stretching
What does it mean when a client has flexibility?
The more lengthened the tendons + fascia are, the bigger range of motion the client will have