The perspective of functional fascial network as an inevitable part of healthy movement
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Active healthy aging : proceedings of the International Conference of Sports and Neuroscience „Active Healthy Aging, AHA 2015“, 2nd–5th September, Magdeburg, Germany |
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| Field | Sport and leisure time activities |
| Keywords | fascial network; fascial training; physical activity |
| Description | Controlled physical activity plays a vital role in a modern healthy lifestyle in human beings in the modern information society, whose development started in the second half of the 20th century. The transformation from the industrial into the information society has brought a great amount of changes in our lifestyle with its advantages and disadvantages. The growing sedentary way of life caused by technological development has an enormous impact on health and the decline in natural physical activity (Sekot, 2011). Therefore society should be body-and-health conscious and aware of the importance of active movement. The opportunities for being active, to exercise and do sports are extensive and constantly expanding, while the knowledge and awareness of how to exercise correctly is extending and deepening too. A wide variety of sports and exercising, including different types of training, are commonplace nowadays. According to Schleip (2015), we have long been practising muscle-oriented training. Later, the importance of muscle chains and their involvement in the training process came in focus and enhanced it. Now we are bringing the knowledge of the fascial web, its engagement in posture and locomotion, the fascia-oriented training into focus and this is becoming a challenge for the future. The aim of the fascia-oriented training is to work with the elasticity, elastic storage capacity, remodelling, proprioceptive refinement and rehydration of connective tissues. Thanks to its properties, the fascial web is firmly involved in the process of force transmission from muscles to the skeleton and thus in locomotion (Huijing, 2007) (Schleip, 2015). Besides, fascia can improve its qualities with specific training, whose aim is not to replace standard exercising and training methods, but to enrich and enhance them. |