AIS is highly beneficial for: improving sports performance, repairing sports injuries, and preventing sports injuries. Hundreds of top professional and olympian athletes have been treated in Active Isolated Stretching. And very few of them are talking about it. Why? Because it gives them a competitive advantage.
Sports performance involves power
Power is generated by speed through a given range of motion. Active Isolated Stretching is able to increase range of motion. An athlete that can increase their range of motion is able to generate speed over a greater distance. This leads to more power. The effects can be running faster, jumping higher, swimming faster, hitting the ball harder or further, etc. This applies to all sports that involve power: golf, tennis, baseball, football, swimming, basketball, track & field, and cycling, to name a few.
The most successful athlete is the one with the fewest injuries.
How does the athlete avoid injury? Some very lucky genetic specimens will stay healthy throughout their athletic careers without any assistance. However, that sample pool is too small to consider. The intelligent athlete will seek out sports therapy because injuries occur naturally in sports through trauma or repetitive motion. The more wear and tear the athlete places on the body, the greater the need there is to refresh the system. As athletes become older, they need to look at new techniques that will extend their careers. AIS exercise is the first modality to consider to repair sports injuries, increase sports performance, and extend athletic careers.
Muscle strains
Pulled muscles in sports occur due to inflexibility. If a professional athlete making 10 million dollars a year pulls a hamstring muscle, the loss of that athlete could cost a team 60,000 to 200,000 dollars per game (depending on the sport). These minor but debilitating injuries happen all the time. The reason they occur so frequently is that the trainers are teaching the old methods of stretching and not Active Isolated Stretching techniques. The reason that trainers are not teaching the best methods is because sports teams and organizations are cheap. Sports teams and sports institutions try to cut corners by hiring less expensive trainers. And the result is that their million dollar athletes get sidelined with easily avoidable injuries.
Slowly athletic training institutes are starting to recognize the iceberg potential of Active Isolated Stretching on athletic performance. Recently two leading personal training organizations, American Council on Exercise (ACE) and National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) have devoted major portions of their textbook literature towards AIS exercise. The truth is getting out, the pros already are on board, but the message is still new to the masses. It is up to the individual athlete to seek out AIS therapy. The athlete must be proactive to find AIS rather than AIS magically appearing before the elite athlete.
Which top athletes do AIS exercise?
Some athletes that have used AIS exercise: Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Michael Phelps, Arnold Palmer, VJ Singh, Walter Payton, Nolan Ryan, Michael Johnson, Barry Bonds, Pete Sampras, Usain Bolt, Rafael Nadal, Mikhail Baryshnikov. The list goes on and on… You need to be next.
When is the best time to incorporate AIS into my training?
Do AIS early in the training process. Don’t wait to the last minute and expect phenomenal results. AIS therapy will benefit the athlete in post event training too. But the best way to utilize AIS training is to do it in the early stages of training. The body will adapt to the benefits of AIS and each successive treatment session will bring further improvement to athletic performance.