Delhi State Masters Athletic Championship

Delhi State Masters Championship organized by Veterans Athletic Association at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium on 29 Dec 2013, Gold Medal won by Neeraj Mehta (Fitness Professional)

Basic Principles of Stretching

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Basic Principles of Stretching

A muscle can contract up to 70% or stretched to 130% of its normal resting length in the body, .

A muscle contracts with its greatest force at its normal resting length.

4% Extension of a tension in a joint can causes irreversible damage.

more than 6% stretch of ligament of its normal length, can tears.  Attempting to stretch the ligaments is ineffective and can often be dangerous.

To much stretching of ligaments destabilizes joints and can lead to osteoarthritis.

There are two components of muscular tension: 1) the tension generated by the contractile elements (muscle fibers) and, 2) the tension present even in an inactive, denervated muscle, exerted by the connective tissues.

At approximately 120% of a muscle’s resting length, the two components of muscle tension contribute equally to total tension.

The relative length of your muscles, by influencing the contractile element (muscle fibers), because of the nervous system tension regulates .  The greatest and fastest gains in flexibility are achieved by resetting the nervous control of muscle tension and length.

When the motor neurons of one set of muscles are stimulated, the motor neurons of the opposing muscles are inhibited.  This “reciprocal tension” or” reciprocal inhibition” is what allows you to move.

Muscle fibres are very elastic.  In the muscle they are connected with the less elastic a loss of flexibility.

The shortening of connective tissue in and around the muscle is part of the explanation for a loss of flexibility.

Muscles are usually long enough to allow a full range of motion in the joints.  However, nervous control of muscle tension has to be re-set for the muscles to show their full length.

There are two kinds of stretch receptors.  One kind detects the magnitude and speed of stretching.  Thus, flexibility training is speed-specific.  The other kind detects magnitude only.

The first type of stretch receptor is called a MUSCLE SPINDLE CELL. Located within the muscle bellies, it senses changes in muscle length and the speed of those changes.  When a muscle lengthens too quickly, the spindle cell is stimulated and reflexively causes the muscle to contract, resisting the lengthening and thereby preventing overstretching of the joint.

The second type of stretch receptor is called a GOLGI TENDON ORGAN [GTO]. Located in the muscle tendon, it monitors the amount of strain on the tendon.  When a muscle contracts OR stretches maximally, the GTO senses it and “orders” the muscle to relax.

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Biomechanical considerations

Biomechanical considerations

 

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• A muscular contraction is most efficient (force per energy utilized) when lengthening (eccentric)

• Muscle contraction is most efficient when there is adequate length (muscle length-tension curve)

• Neuro-activation can enhance a muscle’s explosive contraction (plyometric contraction)

• Neuro-activation can be used to enhance a muscle stretch by PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation)

• Stretching can increase neuromuscular transmission

• Proprioception is impaired during fatigue]

• Strength training may increase muscle fiber conduction

• Co-contractions can limit agonist efficiency

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Chest Exercises and Shortness of Breath

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Tip: Chest Exercises and Shortness of Breath

Remember to breathe! If you have shortness of breath (such as that caused by asthma), you may think chest exercise is out. Much to the contrary, however, exercising can actually help your breathing. Since asthma tightens the chest after some forms of exercise, a gentle stretching upper and lower chest exercise can loosen the muscles (just be gentle and drink plenty of water as you go).

Yoga is the best chest exercise to open that constricted chest and improve breathing (even though you may feel like a vise is squeezing your lungs).

Another great body building chest exercise for heavy breathers is swimming. Swimmers breathe warm air around a pool (especially indoors) which helps dry the air passages and prevent them from being filled with blockage.

In general, the best chest exercise for asthma sufferers is one that doesn’t involve cold air or aerobic exercise.

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SteelFlexx ® Extreme Stretching Routine

SteelFlexx ®        

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Beyond Power Yoga, an extreme stretching routine, take you to another level of flexibility. Neeraj Mehta, the inventor of SteelFlexx ®  says, it is an incorporation of yoga dynamic and static stretching with the use of dumbbells and other props, to stretch the specific area to extreme level.

SteelFlexx®, is one of the new technique of flexibility training with an emphasis on biomechanics (movements friendly with the joints and connective tissues of the body), body postures and breathing. 

The best part of SteelFlexx ®, is that it give benefits of all 4 types muscles contraction, so one can isolate muscle from different angles, followed by fast-fast-fast……… results. 

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How to get Ripped by Neeraj Mehta

How to get Ripped, written by Neeraj Mehta, in The Man Magazine, December 2013,  edition, 

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Benefits to Handicapped Exerciser

The following is a list of specific benefits, which may be gained through exercise training, published by National Handicapped Sports in its exercise leaders training manual:

a. Improved general health..

b. Temporary reduction in muscular spasticity.

c. Increased functional independence.

d. Reduction in coronary risk factors.

e. Increased endurance for wheelchair propulsion and transfers.

f. Improved vocational productivity.

g. Successful competition in adapted wheelchair sports.

h. More satisfying participation in community, social, recreational and family activities.

i. Reduced psychological depression and improved self-image.

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Blister Prevention in Workout

Tip: Blister Prevention

Neeraj Mehta

Focusing on back injury prevention and ankle injury prevention? Don't forget foot injury prevention.

Blisters may seem minor, but a bad one can cause you to miss days of training. When you find, say, a new shoe starting to rub, cover the area with a band-aid or moleskin before a blister develops.

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