CHI APEX LLC

                   CHI APEX

Chi Apex Technique requires the trainee to totally focus & concentrate in order to channel maximum mental power (CHI) into recruiting the most muscle fibers for training action.  As a result, physical strength & fitness can be quickly improved in addition to gaining mental calmness & relaxation. Chi Apex employs the basic Tai Chi core principles of deep breathing in conjunction with fluid body motion and mental concentration. While retaining the benefits of the classical Tai Chi, Chi Apex is designed to yield additional fitness goals: Cardio Fitness, Muscle Strength & Toning and Body Flexibility. In conjunction with Computer Technology, Chi Apex Concept is able to monitor the progress of Mental Power and Physical Strength. Chi Apex involves the two most innovative Physical Training Technologies: Asymmetric Training and Plyometric Training

Exercise-Induced Muscular Damage and Soreness

Eccentric movement, generating equal force to a concentric movement, utilizes fewer motor units as fibers develop greater tension while lengthening than shortening. Thus, the tension per fiber is greater during eccentric movements.

Unaccustomed exercise, primarily eccentric, causes a sequence of events that:

  • diminishes performance,
  • causes ultra structural damage,
  • initiates an inflammatory reaction, and
  • causes delayed-onset muscular damage (DOMS).

Stages of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage and Soreness

1. During exercise:

  • mechanical factors (i.e. high stress) that result in:

  • -sarcolemma damage

  • -sarcoplasmic reticulum damage

  • -myofibrillar damage

  • metabolic factors which cause damage that result from:

  • -free oxygen radical production

  • -excessive temperature

  • -decreased pH

2. 0-3 days postexercise:

  • Ca2+ influx from the SR and outside the muscle cell initiate many of the inflammatory reactions
  • production of phagocytic components (i.e. monocytes, neutrophils) to clear damaged and healthy tissue
  • myofibrillar damage continues for 3-d postexercise
  • cause(s) of DOMS may be:

  • -swelling

  • -release of stimulants

  • -hypersensitivity

  • -spasm

 

CHI APEX LLC

                   CHI APEX

Chi Apex Technique requires the trainee to totally focus & concentrate in order to channel maximum mental power (CHI) into recruiting the most muscle fibers for training action.  As a result, physical strength & fitness can be quickly improved in addition to gaining mental calmness & relaxation. Chi Apex employs the basic Tai Chi core principles of deep breathing in conjunction with fluid body motion and mental concentration. While retaining the benefits of the classical Tai Chi, Chi Apex is designed to yield additional fitness goals: Cardio Fitness, Muscle Strength & Toning and Body Flexibility. In conjunction with Computer Technology, Chi Apex Concept is able to monitor the progress of Mental Power and Physical Strength. Chi Apex involves the two most innovative Physical Training Technologies: Asymmetric Training and Plyometric Training