Most athletes you find at teenage years will be rather tight, what is this doing? It is holding back both stride frequency and peak stride length. As well keeping risk of injury pretty high as compared to a flexible athlete. main area of flexibility for a athlete involved in sports which involve running should be the hips.
For those who are tight and you know it, stretching daily for a month WILL improve performance in speed.
Now is there such a thing as being over flexible? Yes! This will vary among athletes however you will see many athletes who can do the splits, when they run it looks simply like they are striding through the race and moving in slow motion. That it just as bad equally as being tight. For thsoe athletes, simply stopping stretches and doing only dynamic stretches should be done as well as moving to exercises like squats and lunges which add the stiffness.
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01-25-2008, 07:27 AM #1
Not enough flexibility and too much flexibility
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01-25-2008, 09:21 AM #12
Pretty good read: http://www.stadion.com/free/Repfree.pdf
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01-25-2008, 09:34 AM #13
Well, regardless it would help with durability for sure. I'm not saying you have to do the splits. I'm saying that the flexibility is good though it may not have any real practical use in the sport.
An analogy of what you're saying is that a baseball player shouldn't lift weights. He never lifts anything heavier than a baseball bat.
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01-25-2008, 09:38 AM #14
No, flexibility and strength cannot be used together in a analogy like that. During a sprint, enough flexibility is required to allow for proper hip extension without being held back, like a mini hurdle on each stride.
A good level of flexibility is enough to prevent injuries, post workout muscle soreness and speed up muscle recovery inbetween workouts.
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01-25-2008, 02:23 PM #15
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07-09-2008, 12:35 PM #18
lol i thought he was unbanned
Stickam: ronniecoleman22
"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard." -Mike Tyson
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07-09-2008, 12:38 PM #19
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07-09-2008, 01:18 PM #21
Say what ya will about the kid, but he did know some ****- even if it was all basically copy and pasted from other places on the internet.
Hell, I can't say that my base of knowledge is all that much different- except I don't make claims about being a 30 year old track coach who can bench 460 .IG: @toadkillerdog
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