KIN 2504 Chapter : Chapter 5 Lecture
15 Mar 2019
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Improved mobility, posture, and balance: healthy joints and pain management. Strengthening the muscles, tendons, making the synovial fluid increase: possible reduction if lower back pain. Joint: the point of contact between two or more bones. Joint stability is supports butt surrounding muscles and tendons. Joint structures: muscles and tendons, the nervous system. Individual factors: genetics: accounts for differences in body structure and tissue elasticity, gender: although widely assumed females are more flexible than males, this may only be true for specific joints. Joint specific: woman are more flexible in hips (childbirth) men in shoulders (weight lifting: aged: physical changes related to aging at some point start to affect the body"s ability to move. Specific: measurable, action oriented, time-oriented realistic, apply the fitt program design principles. Frequency: how often you stretch: 2-3 days every week. Intensity: how far you stretch: time: how long you hold or repeat a stretch, type: what kinds of stretches you do, types of stretches.
