Broadway Dance Flexibility & Stretching

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Publisher...........: Broadway Dance Center
Language............: English
Published...........: 2006
Duration............: 43min 55s
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Broadway Dance Center: Active Isolated Flexibility and Stretching For Dancers
Michele Assaf
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US$32.59
Active-Isolated Flexibility is a technique of stretching in which we pinpoint, isolate and stretch each individual muscle used to perform to your highest potential. Join internationally renowned director, choreographer and master teacher, Michèle Assaf, as she takes you through a series of stretches that will reduce your workload by removing tightness so you can swing your limbs more freely. These stretches transport oxygen to sore muscles and quickly remove toxins from muscles, so recovery is faster.

The AI Flexibility works as with a deep-massage technique as with IT activates muscle the fibers DURING stretching. By Jim the Wharton, an exercise Other physiologist the know as with "the by mechanic" for a His-interference ability to fine-tune Athletes, and a His son is, Phil is the Wharton, a sports a therapist and competitive a long -distance runner, are president and vice- president of Wharton Performance, Inc. in New York City.

The Whartons' have trained and rehabilitated athletic luminaries from professional football players to dancers on the Broadway stage, track and field stars, and Olympic gold medalists.

Their revolutionary Active-Isolated Flexibility are practiced in fitness centers all over the world Flexibility - a necessary quality for a dancer.

Maintain flexibility - it means to maintain the joints in such a state that they can perform the maximum range of motion, or with a maximum amplitude. This requires several conditions:
1) muscle (with all the surrounding tissues) adjacent to the joints, should be flexible;
2) the muscles must be strong, otherwise easy to stretch the muscles and injure a joint or ligament);
3) cords should be kept in a state of balance between "tense" and "relaxation", because excessively tight ligaments limit the range of motion of the joint, and "lax" ligaments can not hold the joint in place. If you keep the flexibility, during the execution of the dance, you make the most of our natural for the mechanics of the body. In the program you will see a large series of active stretches for dancers.

"Active Isolated flexibility" - a technique for stretching, which is localized, isolated and stretch each individual muscle, working in dance. This stretching technique can be used for good warming up, both before and after classes.

It allows you to reduce the load on the joints, increase their mobility range, stretch muscles and get rid of the "hardness", which limits the range of motion in the dance. These extensions deliver oxygen to "clogged" after active physical exercise (dance or sports) muscles, and quickly eliminate lactic acid from there, so that the recovery process is made ??easier, and the muscles are elongated and flexible.

As a matter of fact, this technique of deep massage, because during the stretching it activates muscle fibers. In addition, due to the compensation techniques, such stretching help maintain and preserve the well-developed (and, more importantly, symmetrically developed) elastic muscles of the whole body, without the shift in focus in the upper or lower part of the body to prevent injury, and if the injury had happened, the implementation of extensions with compensation allows you to return the dance form more quickly restore muscle balance and improve blood supply to the injured area.

The essence of the technique is as follows:
-each stretch is on the exhale and hold two seconds (this is a sample of exhalation duration),
-then inhale stretch the muscles relaxes and released (also approximately 2 seconds),
-then it is stretched a little deeper,
-then relaxes and released, and so on until 8-10 repetitions.

Working in the "stretch-relax" allows you to stretch the muscle due to the mechanism of the muscles more deeply and efficiently, in which the contraction of the muscle agonist causes relaxation of the muscles of antagonist, and in a state of relaxation, the muscle that is stretched, does not seek to reduce, to the return of in its original state, and each time keeps more elongated state.

Classes are conducted by Michel Assaf, director, choreographer and master teacher NY Broadway Dance Center.
First, it gives the private lesson (37 minutes) with a detailed explanation of the technique of each of the isolated stretch, he explains in detail, and shows how to use stretch almost from the toes, arch of the foot, Achilles tendon through the hamstrings, posterior thigh surface and quadriceps to the piriformis muscle, so necessary for the dancers, to internal and external rotations of the hips and to the chest, arms, shoulders and neck.

It shows how to effectively use for this purpose a clothesline, a belt, a rope jump rope, a long belt or elastic bandage, and tells how muscle contracts to prepare to stretch our target muscle, the one that we stretch.

The program is aimed not only dancers, but also gymnasts, athletes, sportsmen, all those involved in the martial arts, to maintain good form to return to form after injury or longer breaks, as well as all lovers of fitness to gain a flexible body.

Warning: if your body is not stretched, be very careful when listening to instructions and follow the signals of the body, do not force the stretch, otherwise you can be injured. Regular practice will lead you to the desired goal.