NASM - Flexibility Training questions
with correct answers
Define: Neuromuscular Efficiency - ANSWERS✔✔ The ability of the neuromuscular system
to allow agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work synergisticilly to produce, reduce, and
dynamically stabilize the entire kinetic chain in all three plains of motion
Define: Postural Distortion Patterns - ANSWERS✔✔ Predictable patterns of muscle
imbalances
Define: Relative flexibility - ANSWERS✔✔ The tendancy of the body to seek the path of
least resistance during functional movement patterns ( if the muscles are lengthened,
inelastic connective tissue fibers acts as road blocks, preventing the muscle fibers from
moving properly. This causes alterations in normal tissue extensibility and causes Relative
Flexibility)
What are the three causes of Muscle imbalances? - ANSWERS✔✔ Altered reciprocal
inhibition, synergistic dominance, arthrokinematic dysfunction
Define: Reciprocal inhibition - ANSWERS✔✔ Simultaneous relaxation of one muscle and
the contraction of its antagonist to allow movement to occur.
Give and example of reciprocal inhibition. - ANSWERS✔✔ During a bicep curl the biceps
contract and as a result of reciprocal inhibition, the tricep head relaxes (the antagonist)
Define: Altered Reciprocal inhibition - ANSWERS✔✔ The concept of muscle inhibition,
caused by a tight agonist, which inhibits its functional antagonist.
, What does altered reciprocal inhibition lead to? - ANSWERS✔✔ It alters force couple
relationships, produces synergistic dominance, and leads to the development of faulty
movement patterns
Define: Synergistic dominance - ANSWERS✔✔ Occurs when synergists take over as prime
movers due to weak or inhibited prime movers
Define: Arthrokinetic Dysfunction - ANSWERS✔✔ altered forces at the join that result in
abnormal muscular activity and impaired neuromuscular communication at the joint
When assessing flexibility dysfunction always stretch the (BLANK) muscles? -
ANSWERS✔✔ Overactive
Define: Autogenic inhibition - ANSWERS✔✔ The process by which neural impulses that
sense tension are greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract, providing an
inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles
Define: Pattern overload - ANSWERS✔✔ Consistantly repeating the same pattern of
motion, which may place abnormal stresses on the body
What is Davis's Law? - ANSWERS✔✔ States that soft tissue models along the lines of stress.
Soft tissue is remodeled with an ineleastic collagen matrix that forms in a random fashion,
inhibiting tissue extensibility
What are the three phases of flexibility training? - ANSWERS✔✔ Corrective, active,
functional
Which phase of the OPT would one use Corrective flexibility training? - ANSWERS✔✔
Stabilization level
with correct answers
Define: Neuromuscular Efficiency - ANSWERS✔✔ The ability of the neuromuscular system
to allow agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work synergisticilly to produce, reduce, and
dynamically stabilize the entire kinetic chain in all three plains of motion
Define: Postural Distortion Patterns - ANSWERS✔✔ Predictable patterns of muscle
imbalances
Define: Relative flexibility - ANSWERS✔✔ The tendancy of the body to seek the path of
least resistance during functional movement patterns ( if the muscles are lengthened,
inelastic connective tissue fibers acts as road blocks, preventing the muscle fibers from
moving properly. This causes alterations in normal tissue extensibility and causes Relative
Flexibility)
What are the three causes of Muscle imbalances? - ANSWERS✔✔ Altered reciprocal
inhibition, synergistic dominance, arthrokinematic dysfunction
Define: Reciprocal inhibition - ANSWERS✔✔ Simultaneous relaxation of one muscle and
the contraction of its antagonist to allow movement to occur.
Give and example of reciprocal inhibition. - ANSWERS✔✔ During a bicep curl the biceps
contract and as a result of reciprocal inhibition, the tricep head relaxes (the antagonist)
Define: Altered Reciprocal inhibition - ANSWERS✔✔ The concept of muscle inhibition,
caused by a tight agonist, which inhibits its functional antagonist.
, What does altered reciprocal inhibition lead to? - ANSWERS✔✔ It alters force couple
relationships, produces synergistic dominance, and leads to the development of faulty
movement patterns
Define: Synergistic dominance - ANSWERS✔✔ Occurs when synergists take over as prime
movers due to weak or inhibited prime movers
Define: Arthrokinetic Dysfunction - ANSWERS✔✔ altered forces at the join that result in
abnormal muscular activity and impaired neuromuscular communication at the joint
When assessing flexibility dysfunction always stretch the (BLANK) muscles? -
ANSWERS✔✔ Overactive
Define: Autogenic inhibition - ANSWERS✔✔ The process by which neural impulses that
sense tension are greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract, providing an
inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles
Define: Pattern overload - ANSWERS✔✔ Consistantly repeating the same pattern of
motion, which may place abnormal stresses on the body
What is Davis's Law? - ANSWERS✔✔ States that soft tissue models along the lines of stress.
Soft tissue is remodeled with an ineleastic collagen matrix that forms in a random fashion,
inhibiting tissue extensibility
What are the three phases of flexibility training? - ANSWERS✔✔ Corrective, active,
functional
Which phase of the OPT would one use Corrective flexibility training? - ANSWERS✔✔
Stabilization level
