NASM - Flexibility Training
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1. Define: Neuromuscular Efficiency: 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
2. Define: Postural Distortion Patterns: Predictable patterns of muscle imbalances
3. Define: Relative flexibility: The tendancy of the body to seek the path of least resistance during functiona
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)
4. What are the three causes of Muscle imbalances?: Altered reciprocal inhibition, synergistic
dominance, arthrokinematic dysfunction
5. Define: Reciprocal inhibition: Simultaneous relaxation of one muscle and the contraction of its antag-
onist to allow movement to occur.
6. Give and example of reciprocal inhibition.: During a bicep curl the biceps contract and as a
result of reciprocal inhibition, the tricep head relaxes (the antagonist)
7. Define: Altered Reciprocal inhibition: The concept of muscle inhibition, caused by a tight agonist,
which inhibits its functional antagonist.
8. What does altered reciprocal inhibition lead to?: It alters force couple relationships, produces
synergistic dominance, and leads to the development of faulty movement patterns
9. Define: Synergistic dominance: Occurs when synergists take over as prime movers due to weak or
inhibited prime movers
10. Define: Arthrokinetic Dysfunction: altered forces at the join that result in abnormal muscular
activity and impaired neuromuscular communication at the joint
11. When assessing flexibility dysfunction always stretch the (BLANK) muscles?-
: Overactive
12. Define: Autogenic inhibition: 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
13. Define: Pattern overload: Consistantly repeating the same pattern of motion, which may place abnor-
mal stresses on the body
14. What is Davis's Law?: 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
15. What are the three phases of flexibility training?: Corrective, active, functional
16. Which phase of the OPT would one use Corrective flexibility training?: Stabiliza-
tion level
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1. Define: Neuromuscular Efficiency: 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
2. Define: Postural Distortion Patterns: Predictable patterns of muscle imbalances
3. Define: Relative flexibility: The tendancy of the body to seek the path of least resistance during functiona
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)
4. What are the three causes of Muscle imbalances?: Altered reciprocal inhibition, synergistic
dominance, arthrokinematic dysfunction
5. Define: Reciprocal inhibition: Simultaneous relaxation of one muscle and the contraction of its antag-
onist to allow movement to occur.
6. Give and example of reciprocal inhibition.: During a bicep curl the biceps contract and as a
result of reciprocal inhibition, the tricep head relaxes (the antagonist)
7. Define: Altered Reciprocal inhibition: The concept of muscle inhibition, caused by a tight agonist,
which inhibits its functional antagonist.
8. What does altered reciprocal inhibition lead to?: It alters force couple relationships, produces
synergistic dominance, and leads to the development of faulty movement patterns
9. Define: Synergistic dominance: Occurs when synergists take over as prime movers due to weak or
inhibited prime movers
10. Define: Arthrokinetic Dysfunction: altered forces at the join that result in abnormal muscular
activity and impaired neuromuscular communication at the joint
11. When assessing flexibility dysfunction always stretch the (BLANK) muscles?-
: Overactive
12. Define: Autogenic inhibition: 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
13. Define: Pattern overload: Consistantly repeating the same pattern of motion, which may place abnor-
mal stresses on the body
14. What is Davis's Law?: 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
15. What are the three phases of flexibility training?: Corrective, active, functional
16. Which phase of the OPT would one use Corrective flexibility training?: Stabiliza-
tion level
1/3
