everything wrote:what actually happens physiologically in your body when you train to create more "springiness", whether it's through plyometrics or whatever?
everything wrote:Mostly movement but are they different? If I improve this attribute, what am I doing?
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ctjla wrote:My experience has led me to believe that along with reconditioning the tissue by placing it under load; there is also a sort of kinetic, proprioceptive self-education that takes place.
For example, I learn to harness the rebound when I run in order to increase my performance. Then as a result of that, those tissues get stronger.
The physical changes might be adaptive and not the most significant contributory change - maybe the effects are more about repatterning and reprogamming how the mind is directing and using the body. maybe at the heart of it it's more like learning a technique than "s&c" but rather the technique is one of how to use the body in an inherently different way, which in this case would translate to giving it a developed attribute. The body has some natural levels of elastic quality anyway. That can be enhanced with the specific training but perhaps what it being most enhanced are the way we choose (direct ourselves) to move, use and train the body to manifest; to issue, and act and react to incoming forces. That's not to say 'it's all in the mind', but my hunch would be that the main cause and contributor to an elastic effect is more mental change in repatterning body movement/reactions, than a measurable physical body change. Any physical measurements I've seen around elasticity have only ever shown small increases.
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