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To stretch in the pool or out of the pool... Melissa Layne, MS explains: When we normally think Flexibility, we do think stretching against a force such as a wall or another person or gravity (passive static stretching). But if you go back to the true definition of flexibility it simply is "moving a joint through a range of motion". We can do that gravity assisted, as on land, or buoyancy assisted as in the water. When you truly break it down, we do flexibility exercises every time we contract the opposing muscle. It is just dynamic flexibity, or moving the joint through a range of motion with little or no resistance. Because our muscles work in opposing pairs, the antagonist to the loaded agonist is always going to be stretching when the agonist is contracting. So when our clients are in the water doing a front kick buoyancy actually helps them stretch their glutes on the way up and forward and the concentric contraction is actually on the way down because you are loaded against the resistance of buoyancy. That is why there are very few one-joint loaded eccentric contractions in the water which is why muscle soreness occurs less frequently. So it is actually quite easy to dynamically stretch in the water with every movement. Buoyancy increases the range of motion of the joint easily and safely because you cannot do ballistic stretching in the water due to the resistance factor unless you are holding on to the edge of the pool which means you are not utilizing your core to balance. If you can't bounce a stretch in the water then there is no stretch reflex occurring in the Golgi tendon which is safe. We don't want the stretch reflex to occur in the Golgi tendon because it actually causes a tightening of the muscle while trying to protect itself. [Read More]
So it is actually quite easy to dynamically stretch in the water with every movement. Buoyancy increases the range of motion of the joint easily and safely because you cannot do ballistic stretching in the water due to the resistance factor unless you are holding on to the edge of the pool which means you are not utilizing your core to balance. If you can't bounce a stretch in the water then there is no stretch reflex occurring in the Golgi tendon which is safe. We don't want the stretch reflex to occur in the Golgi tendon because it actually causes a tightening of the muscle while trying to protect itself.
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