Deceleration

What is Functional Conditioning?

Functional conditioning consists of exercises that incorporate balance, flexibility, stability, acceleration, and deceleration.

When there is inadequate flexibility or lack of strength a breakdown can occur which leads to decrease in performance and possible injury.

Exercises to help condition the body for functional movements must meet all four criteria:

Include all three planes of movement (sagittal, frontal, and transverse)
Condition the bodies nerves and muscles to develop muscle memory
Allow the body to respond to external forces such as gravity, ground reaction forces, and momentum.
Condition biomotor abilities (flexibility, strength, power, endurance agility, or coordination).

Conditioning movements occurring in the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes improve performance and help prevent injuries.

Acceleration demands great strength and power while maintaining triple extension through the ankle/knee/hip. This triple extension is highly related to work done in the weight room.
Stopping or decelerating demands proportional bending of the ankle/knee/hip in order to control the high eccentric loads and properly absorb shock.
Reaction can be improved by working on the primary stimulus: auditory, visual or kinesthetic depending on the sport or the situation.
Assistance training (overspeed) methods develop specific strength to improve stride frequency as well as stride length.
Vary speed training methods and intensity to avoid building a speed barrier.

Effective Athletic Development is based on the development of fundamental Movement Skills before sport-specific skills

Agility is the ability to rapidly change direction, without the loss of speed, balance, or body awareness
Movement training is multi-directional speed and agility skills that will result in significant improvement in game speed
Movement training skills are the keys to game speed.
It can be a significant contribution to injury prevention and also have a component of performance enhancement

The components of Movement Training:

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