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IMPORTANCE OF FLEXIBILITY • It helps to prevent injures (elastic muscle, better
carries raised mechanical weight).
• Its betterment, adjusted to the demands of mar-
tial arts, brings about a positive action on the de- • It is achieved faster with daily training,
velopment of the physical features that control
efficiency (strength, velocity, resistance, etc.), • The optimal age goes from 11-14 years then; a
and the technical abilities. well-graded training work will be enough to keep
the reached level of mobility (Jurgen Wuineck-
• Itis an essential issue of the training sessions. Optimal training).
METHODOLOGICAL • The slow-downs within • Its improvement is kept
PRINCIPLES FOR the practice sessions must longer after active practice
TRAINING be devoted to relaxation. than after passive flexibili-
FLEXIBILITY ty training.
• Extension must reach
It must be trained: the maximum limit seve- • To reach the maximum
ral times and progressively level, extension must be
• Daily and continually, exceed it. practiced in several direc-
without large scale inte- tions.
rruptions. • During the specific tra-
ining of a given sport, its • To carry out active flexi-
• After a well-thought improvement turns mo- bility, some weigh exerci-
warm up session; never mentary for about 10 mi- ses can be done in the free
after a hard practice of ge- nute; after a stretching segment.
neral resistance nor under practice session, long term
muscle weariness. slow-downs must be avoi-
ded.
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