Aspire is excited to introduce a new personalised flexibility service to help you improve the areas which most people invest less time than you should.

Often we hear that ‘improving flexibility’ is a goal. Mainly from the point of ‘functional’ capacity. Meaning they feel tight, awkward when doing every day things. Now not that anyone wants to become a supple leopard or yogi, however we do want to have the feeling of being able to move ‘freely’ for activities of daily living (ADL’s).

And we know that having poor mobility and flexibility (don’t forget these are 2 different things) is related to poor biomechanics, movement skills and therefore reducing our potential leading to muscle imbalance and pain.

Using a science based approach, to improve the flexibility of muscle and ROM of joints there are many advanced techniques and not all stretching and flexibility is treated equal.

So our new program ISOstretch, bring the best and most effective forms of advanced flexibility training to you in one single session. We include:

– Isometric training (Muscle Activation)
– AIS (Active Isolated Stretching
– PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation)
– SMRT (Self Myofascial Release Therapy)

Keep in mind, that just a 3 minute stretch at the end of your session is not going to yield you great results. Like all components of health and fitness, you must apply the FITT principle (Frequency, Intensity, Time and Type), track and measure your improvements.

With specific relation to flexibility, we must consider increased frequency, and time, and only intensity as a factor for mainly Isometric and PNF methods, and not static stretching protocols.

Try it, it will be the perfect compliment to your current training and help you do the things you need to do, but don’t do on your own 

Research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273886/