Flexibility Training
0 comments Posted by: Stavros AloizosFlexibility training is perhaps one of the most undervalued components of conditioning and athletic
performance. However research shows us that it can have significant benefit for all athletes in
performance enhancement and injury prevention.
From a slam-dunk to a three quarter court pass – flexibility of the bodies muscles and joints play an
integral part of all basketball movements. In general terms, flexibility has been defined as the range of
motion about a joint and its surrounding tissue during a passive movement. Passive in this context
simply means no active muscle recruitment is required to hold the stretch. Instead gravity or a partner
provides the force of the stretch.
For our purposes Flexibility Training will encompass both static and dynamic stretching as well as the
larger speed/strength continuum that most of our players require.
