PNF Stretching

[Gyakuto104]

I’ve used PNF flexibility training in the past with mixed results, but never heard this explanation for it. I understood the contraction inhibited the stretch reflex (a reflex that opposes stretching beyond one’s current range). This video has a different explanation.

Has anyone use PNF with any success?

 

[HighKick]

I’ve used PNF flexibility training in the past with mixed results, but never heard this explanation for it. I understood the contraction inhibited the stretch reflex (a reflex that opposes stretching beyond one’s current range). This video has a different explanation.

Has anyone use PNF with any success?

PNF has been around for a long time. Since you are training at the extreme of most motions, care must be taken not to stress the joints. It is easier to do in these unnatural positions.

 

[Buka20]

PNF was pretty much all we ever used. It helped more than we could have imagined or hoped for.

 

[Gyakuto104]

PNF was pretty much all we ever used. It helped more than we could have imagined or hoped for.

Oh, really? Did you implement it as suggested in the video?

 

[Buka20]

Oh, really? Did you implement it as suggested in the video?

Far more detailed than what was in the video.

 

[HighKick]

PNF was pretty much all we ever used. It helped more than we could have imagined or hoped for.

For certain. I would put it in the upper-level athlete category for most people since it is usually well into the phase of training your body it is okay to move in extreme ways/motions.

 

[Buka20]

For certain. I would put it in the upper-level athlete category for most people since it is usually well into the phase of training your body it is okay to move in extreme ways/motions.

It was first taught to us by a chiropractor we all used. He had a Doctorate in Kinesiology.

 

[Prince_Alarming104]

there's this wrinkle to it where you do a whole minute contraction at the end to get that last bit of ROM and it's pretty agonising. Works though.

 

[HighKick]

It was first taught to us by a chiropractor we all used. He had a Doctorate in Kinesiology.

When I made my Olympic run, I had a trainer who was a former Olympiad (T&F). He turned me onto it and it was part of our regimen.
Man oh man, that was good times.