Sentences with phrase «open chain exercise»

As any other open chain exercise, skull crushers tend to cause elbow pain because of the large lever, and this the main reason some people avoid them at all costs.

«With the ability to activate the quads with a variety of closed chained exercises effectively, and knowing that during the first 6 weeks a graft is slowly weakening until becoming integrated into its bony tunnel, I do not see any reason at this time to push with open chained exercises,» says Dr. Cronin.

Simply put, closed chain exercises are where the body is moved through space, while open chain exercises demand that a foreign object is moved through space.

Once you are able to find this optimal positioning throughout a slow controlled exercise, the next challenge is to apply it to a faster moving and open chained exercise.

Not exact matches

They said that it appears that open chain activities after 6 weeks may improve strength without adversely affecting the surgical graft and / or increasing graft laxity (e.g. looseness), and that the evidence was currently insufficient to determine whether open chain knee exercises before 6 weeks postsurgery was safe.

The reviewers found few studies evaluating the effectiveness in the ACL rehabilitation process of so - called «open chain» exercises (those which tend to isolate a single muscle group and a single joint, such as leg curls and leg extensions, with or without added weight) versus «closed chain» exercises (those which work multiple joints and multiple muscle groups at once, such as, for example, a squat involves the knee, hip and ankle joints, and multiple muscles groups, e.g. quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, calves and glutes, with body weight alone or with added weight).

As a result, the guidelines currently limit open chain activities in the first six weeks to light - load, short - arc quadriceps exercises.

Machine based exercises are open chain.

It's a closed - chain exercise, which simply - defined means that you're moving your body rather than the resistance (the opposite would be open - chain, which is what the adductor machine is where your limbs are moving the resistance).

The leg extension is also an open - chain exercise, meaning the body is in a fixed position while the foot moves.

However, flywheel leg curls do transfer to sprint running (Askling et al. 2003), even when they are performed by premier league soccer players using an open chain machine exercise!

Comparing the effect of closed and open chain vertical pulling exercises, Doma et al. (2013) explored the muscle activity during pull - ups and lat pull - downs.