Playing With Movement: How to Explore the Many Dimensions of Physical Health and Performance by Todd Hargrove

Author:Todd Hargrove [Hargrove, Todd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780578502618
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Amazon: B07RKN2S4Q
Goodreads: 45481251
Publisher: Better Movement
Published: 2019-04-24T21:00:00+00:00

MOBILITY

With freedom comes responsibility.

—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Mobility means how well you move near a functional end range of motion. This is a slightly different concept from flexibility, which is more about quantity of motion than quality. For example, if two people squat to the same depth, they have the same flexibility in the ankle, hip and knee. But they might have different mobility: one moves to end range with speed, strength, balance, and control, while the other gets there slowly, with stiffness, weakness, or discomfort. So flexibility is about the length of the road: how far does it go before it hits a dead end? And mobility is more about the quality of the road at your intended destination. How wide are the streets, what is the speed limit, are there potholes or traffic jams? And is there good parking?

In most sports, mobility is probably the more important constraint on performance and injury prevention. Athletes usually don’t require extreme ranges of motion, but rather extreme control at the end of relatively normal ranges of motion. For example, the hip muscles of a football running back don’t need to stretch that far — you won’t see them doing the splits to avoid a tackler. But they perform incredibly challenging tasks in extended positions — decelerating, balancing, stabilizing, handling loads, and getting prepared to explode in the opposite direction.

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