Sentences with phrase «residual muscle tension»

We do this by tracing tension or residual muscle tension to the source and getting rid of it from its origins.

Muscle tone, also known as muscle tonus or residual muscle tension, is an unconscious low level contraction of your muscles while they are at rest.

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As for residual force enhancement, several experiments have found that single muscle fibers subjected to maximal (tetanized) contractions produce lower tension after a being shortened to a standard length, compared to a comparable isometric contraction at the same standard length, without the preceding shortening phase.

This exercise is explosive in nature, and therefore forces the muscles of the core to contract faster and more expressively, which is what we call muscle tone (no, not the muscle toning word you see in fad workout program, but the actual scientific definition of muscle tone - the residual or continuous state of muscle tension).

So if a muscle isn't being used and is tight this is what we call residual tension.

Residual tension is muscular or tendon tension that is there when the muscles aren't being voluntarily tightened.

Raynor massage is a deep tissue form of massage that is designed to rid the body of all residual tension accumulated through stress, emotional issues, overuse of muscles and general living.