Activation of Spring-Like Muscle in the Body for Healthy Walking and Running

In the field of sports, excellent performance needs elasticity of the muscle. This has been called as the spring-like muscle of the body, which was formerly believed to be from innate gifted sense. Recently, however, adequate exercise can bring such ability by the training of stretch shortening cycle (SSC). Human body has three important spring-like muscles. They are Triceps surae to the Achilles tendon, Gluteus maximus to hamstrings and Iliopsoas. For actual performance, flexibility and stiffness of the muscle would be required. As the practice of relaxing and contracting the muscle, the spring-like muscle stretching method will be useful.

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