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Programmes
Increased speed of
contraction and power
Potentiation
gain
Less nervous effort to at-
tain maximum strength
Improved absorption of
oxygen by the stimulated
Endurance muscles
Improved performance for
endurance sports
Improved absorption of
oxygen by the stimulated
Resistance
muscles
Improved performance for
endurance sports
Increased maximum
strength
Strength
Increased rate of muscular
contraction
Increases the speed at
which the level of strength
Explosive
is attained
strength
Improved efficiency of ex-
plosive actions (jumping,
sprinting, etc.)
Increased muscle volume
Increased muscle resis-
Hypertrophy
tance
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Sport
Uses
Effects
For optimum muscle prepa-
ration immediately before
competition
For athletes who wish to
improve their performance
in long-duration sporting
events
For athletes who wish to
improve their performance
in long-duration sporting
events
For competitive athletes
practising a discipline that
requires strength and speed
For athletes practising a dis-
cipline in which explosive
strength is an important fac-
tor in performance
For competitive athletes
who wish to increase their
muscle mass
For body-builders
Sport
Programmes
Effects
Training and preparation
of muscles for all kinds of
muscular work (endu-
rance, resistance, strength,
explosive strength)
Fartlek
through different working
sequences
To optimise the effects of
the voluntary technique of
stretching, by means of a
reduction of muscular
Stretching tonus obtained by specific
activation of the antagonist
of the stretched muscle
(reciprocal inhibition re-
flex)
Marked increase in blood
flow
Accelerates the elimination
Active
of waste from the muscular
contraction
recovery
Endorphinic effect (see
Pain category)
Relaxing effect
Analgesic effect through
the release of endorphins
Marked increase in blood
flow encouraging oxyge-
Regeneration
nation and drainage
Activation of the oxydative
metabolism
Reactivation of proprio-
ceptive pathways
Uses
At the beginning of the sea-
son to "re-set" the muscles
after a rest period and be-
fore more intensive and
specific training
During the season for those
who do not have any prefe-
rences for a single kind of
performance and prefer to
exercise their muscles with
different work-out methods
For all athletes who wish to
maintain or improve their
muscular elasticity
To be used after all training
sessions or during a specific
stretching session
To improve and accelerate
the muscle recovery after an
intensive exercise
To be used during the first 3
hours after each session of
intensive training or after a
competition
To be used the day after
competition as recovery
training or as a complement
to this type of training, the
intensity of which can then
be reduced
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