Monday, August 17, 2009

Dynamic Warm Up and Stretch yoga Suck

I see myself as coach of the mind of man. I estimate always my own programs and what is actually taught by professionals in the hope of finding one, better more efficient ways of doing things.
When it comes to my evaluation, I use a very simple philosophy: "If no scientific sense, and defies common sense, it must be nonsense."
As I studied some of the exercises commonly used by coaches as a dynamic warm up and stretches from yoga and Pilates instructors, I found that many of them did not fit the meaning common or scientific.
By deductive reasoning, I concluded that these movements are based solely on nonsense, and should be deleted from your program. I urge them not to do the movements of stretching, and I hope that by the end of this article you also avoid them as you would avoid a coffee-milk decaf soy.
Due to the immense popularity of these exercises, it is very likely that you practice some of them in your program. In addition, many of these movements is currently taught by highly respected coaches.
Well, in this article, I found a lot of science and a strong reason why these movements, not models to promote proper movement and based on recent research, may actually lead to a malfunction. Instead of telling you what to do and why I try to teach you what not to do, and why not to do.
As the great Bruce Lee once said,
"This is not the daily increase but decrease every day. Hack away the unreal."
Stretching Do # 1: The Scorpion Twist
This exercise is increasingly these days in yoga magazines and fitness displays.
Frankly, I always thought that the scorpion is popular only because it looked cool. I never used because I think he felt very artificial and had no real transfer function.
My personal opinion aside, the fundamental flaw with the twist that scorpion athlete simultaneously expand and rotate the spine. This type of exercise can cause stress on the facet joints cord. The facets are small joints, which overlap like shingles on a roof and form the back surface of the spine.
According to Dr. Wolf Schamberger misalignment Syndrome: Implications for Medicine and Sports (2002):
"The facet joints are made to non-specifically to lateral bending, back extension and single extension back with a rotation to the right or left. (P. 244)
Similar messages can be found later in the article:
"Taxation of facet joints of the spine has an important role in LBP. Lateral forces due to axial rotation and flexion-extension (compression loads shear) are primarily transmitted by the facet joints. Although shear traumatic or transitional forces will be opposed by both the disc and facets of the viscoelasticity disc causes slowly applied or constant-shear pass through the facet joints. "(Hassan A. Serhan, Ph.D., Gus Varnavas , MD, Andrew P. Doors, PhD, Avinash Patwardhan, PhD, Michael Tzermiadianos, MD, Biomechanics of Posterior Lumbar Articulating Elements, 2007)
This article goes further into the nature of the pain caused by stress and compression facet:
"Facet joint compression leading to at least three causes of back pain: spinal arthritis, herniated and bulging discs, encroachment of the nerve root ... Because the nervous system is responsible for many other activities, the effects of compression of articular very different.
Recent research also suggests that you ten times more susceptible to sciatic pain facet compression injury, herniated discs suffer.
This type of evidence, it is easy to see why the scorpion twist is one tablet does not.

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