IMPROVE YOUR GAME WITH ESSENTRICS
Essentrics increases range of motion and incontestable increase in speed and agility that helps prevent injury and decreases recovery time. The purpose of this program is to stretch, strengthen, and re-balance the full muscular structure leaving you more flexible and agile. Essentrics prepares the muscles and tendons to both withstand the maximum demands of your sport and to rebound injury-free from unexpected twists, turns and stresses. Essentrics is dynamic stretching in motion, which means you develop flexibility the way your body needs it on game day.
WHO DOES ESSENTRICS?
The Essentrics program has been widely used for over ten years by individual Olympians and professional athletes, as well as many teams in a wide variety of sports including: football, basketball, hockey, speed skating, figure skating, gymnastics, squash, volleyball, skiing, diving, and swimming. The Montreal Canadiens have been using it for the last three seasons:
THE TECHNIQUE
Essentrics strengthens and stretches every muscle in the body eccentrically, re-balancing the muscular structure in continuous rotational movements. It incorporates various techniques including PNF and isometrics while systematically working every joint of the body. This full-body flexibility technique works through the muscle chains, liberating and empowering the muscles, relieving them from tension in the process.
UNDERSTANDING FLEXIBILITY
Essentrics' definition of flexibility: complete freedom of movement within the muscles and joints of the entire body. It refers to the achievement of your maximum personal level of flexibility.
Like everything worth having, flexibility takes time to achieve. A 5-minute warm-up will not change the degree of muscular flexibility. Warm-ups give the illusion of increased flexibility, however in truth warm-ups simply take the tension or chill out of the muscles, making them feel more flexible. It is unrealistic to expect a change in your overall flexibility in a short period of time. To achieve real change in muscle length, a minimum of 25-50 minutes of Essentrics training performed two to three times a week is necessary.
Unlike most flexibility programs, the flexibility gained in the Essentrics workout remains with you while you perform in your sport. In most flexibility programs the emphasis is on passive stretching. Although passive stretching feels good at the time, the moment you move, your muscles re-contract to their starting point, leaving you as tight as prior to a passive-stretching workout. Essentrics is a program aimed at maintaining flexibility while increasing your strength.
Like everything worth having, flexibility takes time to achieve. A 5-minute warm-up will not change the degree of muscular flexibility. Warm-ups give the illusion of increased flexibility, however in truth warm-ups simply take the tension or chill out of the muscles, making them feel more flexible. It is unrealistic to expect a change in your overall flexibility in a short period of time. To achieve real change in muscle length, a minimum of 25-50 minutes of Essentrics training performed two to three times a week is necessary.
Unlike most flexibility programs, the flexibility gained in the Essentrics workout remains with you while you perform in your sport. In most flexibility programs the emphasis is on passive stretching. Although passive stretching feels good at the time, the moment you move, your muscles re-contract to their starting point, leaving you as tight as prior to a passive-stretching workout. Essentrics is a program aimed at maintaining flexibility while increasing your strength.
AGILITY
In order to be agile, you need flexible strong joints. Essentrics focuses on balancing every joint by simultaneously stretching and strengthening the muscles and pulling the joints apart, leaving the joints free of tension and full of power.
MUSCLE EMPOWERMENT
One of the unique benefits of the Essentrics technique is strength in length. This is one of the most powerful forms of conditioning the muscles because it leaves them strong and long with none of the negative effects of a restricted joint but all the positive effects of maximum power. Speed and agility are the trademark results experienced immediately after each Essentrics workout.
INJURY PREVENTION
Injuries are often caused when imbalanced and tight muscles are suddenly twisted and challenged in an unexpected way resulting in tears, pulls and sprains. Essentrics re-balances the full muscular structure preparing the muscles & tendons to both withstand and rebound injury free from any unexpected twists, turns and stresses.
INJURY HEALING
To heal an injury, it is necessary to increase the flow of blood into the injured area in order to deliver the healing properties of blood while removing poisons. Stretching is one of the fastest and most effective methods of delivering blood to specific regions, which is why it is so effective in injury healing.
Healing also requires re-balancing and protecting of the injured area. Essentrics is a re-balancing program that strengthens and stretches all the muscles around the injury, giving it a chance to heal. This technique strengthens the muscles around an injury; those muscles can then take up the slack of the ones around the injured muscle, giving relief and time for the injured area to heal.
Healing also requires re-balancing and protecting of the injured area. Essentrics is a re-balancing program that strengthens and stretches all the muscles around the injury, giving it a chance to heal. This technique strengthens the muscles around an injury; those muscles can then take up the slack of the ones around the injured muscle, giving relief and time for the injured area to heal.