KIN427 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Endurance Training, Palpation, Transverse Abdominal Muscle

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KIN427
• Professor: Stuart Mc Gill

Document Summary

2015-02-03 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Stability has nothing to do with balance. Muscles create: force and stiffness , active stiffness is from muscles, passive stiffness is from ligaments and fascia. Muscle force may stabilize or compromise stability too much or too little: thus risk is at very low levels and high levels of activation (cid:1) (cid:1) Punctum fixum : the core must be stiffed and fixed to provide the hip musculature a stiffened mass to pull from. Proximal stiffness creates distal mobility (power on other side of ball and socket joints 1. hips, 2. shoulders) core stiffeneing determines hip athletisicm. Hip athleticiscm is the fundamental determinant of most athletic performance. Pathology has been found in ta and multifidus. But pathology is found in every muscle if the right task is chosen for examination. Tight hip flexors, weak glutes, tight erector spinae, weak abdominals. Weak: its not that they"re weak, there is a neurological issue.