Flexibility: training is perhaps the most undervalued component of
conditioning. While recent and ongoing debate questions its role in
injury prevention, athletes can still gain much from a stretching
regime.
From a volleyball spike to a rugby drop kick, flexibility of the bodys
muscles and joints play an integral part in many athletic movements.
In general terms, flexibility has been defined as the range of motion
about a joint and its surrounding muscles during a passive movement
(1,2). Passive in this context simple means no active muscle
involvement is required to hold the stretch. Instead gravity or a
partner provides the force for the stretch.
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