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Elastic fibers in your muscels
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Elastin
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Fibrous connective tissue in your muscels
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Collagen
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When a muscels is stretched these are stretch receptors within the muscle cells are stimulated
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Muscle spindles
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Causes the muscle to contract to prevent overstretching the joint
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Stretch reflex
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Another type of receptor located within the muscle tendon, it detects the amount of tension in a muscle
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Golgi tendon organ
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When escessive tension is placed on the muscle the GTO triggers ...
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Inverse stretch reflex
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Muscles work in pairs and when one muscle contracts, through reciprocal inhibition, its opposing muscle relaxes to permit movement
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Reciprocal inhibition
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Refers to the range of motion achieved by quickly moving a limb to its limits
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Static flexibility
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The range of motionachieved by quickly moving a limb to its limits
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Dynamic flexibility
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Techniques are those in which you slowly stretch a muscle to the point of tension and hold such as in holding a sitting hamstring stretch
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Static stretching
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Involves moving body parts to gradually increase the range or speed of movement
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Dynamic stretching
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Using your own muscle forces to stretch yourself
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Active stretching
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Something else assists with a stretch
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Passive stretching
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The temporary lengthening of soft tissue occurs when muscle is stretched and returns to its resting length
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Elastic elongation
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A semi permanent lengthening of tissue
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Plastic elongation
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