The Exercise Physiologist

✨Keep your child active✨

In these times of quarantine and “staying home” it is very important that we keep our children active!💪🏼

Try to reduce the amount of time your child spends in front of a screen and instead motivate them to play outside or take them for a walk/run🏃🏼‍♀️

The number of overweight children has doubled over the last 30 years! Children obesity can later lead to cardiovascular disease🩺

▫️Researchers have reported that hamstrings
strains accounts for 50% of all muscular injuries
in sprinters and are the 2nd most common injury
site in team sports!👎🏼

▫️Eccentric training has been used in physical
training, injury prevention and rehabilitation
programs.🏋🏼‍♂️

▫️Most of these programs have used Nordic
hamstrings exercise or yo-yo flywheel ergometer,
which have shown positive results.✅

▫️For sprinters, a 3-week program of eccentric
training combined with overspeed exercise
enhance power and running speed performance.🏃🏼

Fun fact: The name “Soleus” came from the latin word “flat sandal” because the Soleus is the flatter and deeper of the two muscles which make up the “Triceps Sorae”🤪
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All this data was taken from research and has shown to be successful (Dorn et al., 2012).
Include these in your training program and watch that stride length increase💥💥