Lesions, Distentions, Ruptures and Fractures

Go... go more! Take force... I support... IAAAAAUUUUUU!!!
It's necessary to take care when you say this to your assistant, mainly if he isn't a professional or doesn't know your limits. It is possible you get hurt during the flexibility work. Every flexibility work is slow and made laggingly day by day and without any exaggeration. Otherwise you will get lesions or distention.

The distension happens when your muscle is too much prolongated causing a rupture of fibers . You will get distensions when, before any physical activity, you don't make an appropriate warm up. GymnKids has a section of warm up with several exercises for you. Take a look in the text "Your muscle" clicking the link of this page or in the main menu.

Figura 1: Close the groin we can see a tendon in each leg being tensionaded.

The tendons rupture is more serious and it can cause even permanent damages in the athlete. Like said, the muscle is formed of fibers and, joineds, form a big bunch. This bunch is arrested in tendons (image 1). The tendons are arrested in the bones. When we get force to raise a weight or during stretching, in true we are putting tension at the tendon. This way we can create a body movement. If that movement be exaggerated the tendon will be come off from bone causing much pain in you.

The bone fracture is also serious and it happens when we fall incorrectly way in the ground or when we receive strong knock from somebody during the sporting activities that demand physical contact (soccer, football, karate). The bone is broken or it crunches and you will have to walk plastered thereabout for a long time, he, he!!

The tinglings can happen in your muscles during a more forced stretching. You should already have sense this before when you keeped a long time in a static position or when you slept over your arm. If you feel tinglings in your body, even if precocity, stop a little bit and repeat the exercise. At me, it happened often in the past, but through the time it was over.

Image 2: Warm up working before to start the exercises.		Image 2: Stretching out of the tendons and muscles from legs. It's just to advanced gymnasts...		Image 3: Taking help by auxiliary.

Even the flexibility work must be done with techniques and to obey rules. The first of them is always to get warm up before the training (image 2). Even if you train only flexibility (like contortionists) should to start slowly. It was already proven that, after training, your body is more favorable to the stretching out. Because this, before the gymnastics training, we make a lighter stretching and, after training, we take really hard flexibility work.

Figura 4: The backbend in correctly performance.

Many trainers and doctors don't agree with the introduction of the backbend between exercises for children (image 4) because they say it could be harmful to the spine in the future. Others say the opposite. It will bring beneficial consequences for the child. In true I don't know adult gymnasts with sick spine caused by backbends, but I can't find any study about subject. Everything that I know is today I feel better than other boys that don't train. Then, get train too, follow all of the instructions, warm up yourself and live a healthy life.