Open kinetic chain exercises (OKC) or open chain exercises are exercises that are performed where the hand or foot is free to move. The opposite of OKC are closed kinetic chain exercises (CKC). Both are effective for strengthening and rehabilitation objectives. Closed chain exercises tend to offer more "functional" athletic benefits such as jumping and squatting.
Read more about Open Kinetic Chain Exercises: Properties, Open Chain Upper Body Exercises, Open Chain Lower Body Exercises
Famous quotes containing the words open, kinetic, chain and/or exercises:
“Luxury, then is a way of
being ignorant, comfortably
An approach to the open market
of least information.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)