Darrell Locket – Dynamic Stretching, The Missing Link to Fitness, Athletic Performance

The optimum stretching method for any client is a Dynamic warm-up/stretching regimen. Traditional static stretching routine should be performed at the cool-down phase of training or exercise only!

Darrell Locket – Dynamic Stretching, The Missing Link to Fitness, Athletic Performance

The Groundbreaking Warm-up Routine to Enhance the Musculoskeletal System

STOP doing static stretching before? Stretching is an effective and efficient part of a warm-up routine before and after physical exertion and sports performance to deliberately elongate and improve the elasticity within the musculotendinous junction. As a result, parents, coaches, sports scientists, and medical professionals have ingrained stretching into the hearts of athletes, clients, and patients of all ages for decades. However, the type of stretching best suited to enhance fitness levels, athletic execution and realign chronic scar tissue has been in question for the past several years.

The optimum stretching method for any client is a Dynamic warm-up/stretching regimen. Traditional static stretching routine should be performed at the cool-down phase of training or exercise only! For many athletes, clients, and patients, whether they are stretching for personal fitness goals, competition, or knee rehabilitation, their top priority is to use the best possible warm-up routine to create an even greater fitness level, competitive edge, or rehabilitation plan while decreasing the likelihood of injury.

Rehabilitating patients and training clients and athletes requires a complete understanding of a variety of stretching regimens and protocols specifically for any physical exertion. This recording provides the opportunity to develop effective strategies to teach dynamic stretching drills to increase soft tissues contractibility and facilitation, tendon and ligament activation, joint range of movement, core body temperature, mental preparation, and stimulate the neuromuscular system and motor ability to function dynamically. You will explore the benefits of dynamic stretching techniques and specific regimens for the upper and lower extremities to increase rate of muscle twitch, mobility, strength, and stability, hence preventing musculoskeletal injuries and implementing into the stages of the healing process.

Through multiple hands-on lab sessions, interactive lecture, and multimedia technology, this recording will provide you with a solid grasp of “who and how-to” for utilizing active stretching protocols creatively when faced with any population for the enhancement of fitness, performance, injury prevention, or rehabilitation. The instructor’s enthusiasm and passion for the content is truly infectious, so you end the recording with not only practical approaches and new techniques to implement immediately, but also an optimistic, fresh approach to stretching and soft tissue enhancement.

1. Examine kinesiology of dynamic stretching and warm-up
2. Discover how to use dynamic stretching to increase speed, endurance, power, coordination, and range of motion
3. Identify appropriate populations and how to utilize dynamic stretching to reduce injuries and rehabilitate through neuromuscular re-education
4. Apply protocols for various populations including fitness, geriatric, sports-specific, and rehabilitation clients in hands-on lab
5. Compare static, ballistic, and dynamic stretching modalities
6. Identify limitations of static stretching
7. Discuss physiology and impact of stretching on the muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems
8. Identify how to combine dynamic stretching with PNF
9. Develop individualized programs for special populations such as geriatrics, athletes, rehabilitation clients, and fitness enthusiasts

INTRODUCTION AND SCIENCE BEHIND DYNAMIC STRETCHING

• Proprioception
• Kinesthesia
• Conscious and Unconscious Awareness
• Active Range of Motion
• Flexibility
• Stretching

BENEFITS OF DYNAMIC STRETCHING

• Muscular System
• Skeletal System
• Nervous System
• Mental Preparation

TYPES OF FLEXIBILITY AND STRETCHING

• Types of Flexibility Receptors
  • Static receptors
  • Dynamic receptors
• Types of Stretching
  • Dynamic
  • Static
  • Ballistic

IMPROVING PERFORMANCE AND REDUCING INJURIES

• Specific for all levels
• Speed
• Endurance
• Plyometric
• Isotonic and Isometric Contractions

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APPROPRIATE MOVEMENT FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, SPORTS, AND INJURY REHABILITATION PROTOCOLS

• Power
• Endurance
• Coordination
• Range of Motion
• Neuromuscular Re-education
• Scar tissue

COMBINING DYNAMIC STRETCHING AND PROPRIOCEPTIVE NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION (PNF) STRETCHING

• Performance Enhancement
• Sports Massage
• Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation

HANDS-ON LAB: FITNESS AND GERIATRIC POPULATION PROTOCOLS 

HANDS-ON LAB: UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITY FOR SPORTS-SPECIFIC PROTOCOLS 

HANDS-ON LAB: SPORTS MASSAGE PROTOCOLS