Originally Posted by DarkEngine
Straight forward question but here goes: What’s the difference between conditioning and toughening?
Conditioning is fairly light PE of limited duration, with a slow increase in time and intensity which aims:
To increase the elastin content of all the collagenous tissue so that it has a more ‘stretchy’ response to PE exercise
Enables any particularly tougher/tighter tissues to become more flexible so that they are not holding back the tissues around them from stretching
Enables any tissues that are weaker to become more balanced to their surrounding tissues so they don’t get injured by the amount of ‘force’ needed to cause adaptation in the stronger tissues as PE intensity increases
Basically, conditioning gets the collagenous tissues used to being exercised and teaches them that they need to adapt, without injury, to a new stimulus they haven’t experienced before. Collagenous tissue is fairly slow to healthily modify, so the process needs to be fairly gentle, over a period of time.
Toughening is an emergency response by the collagenous tissue to doing ‘too much, too soon’. Instead of becoming more flexible and increasing elastin content, it forms strong bonds to resist and cope with the force being applied to it.
It’s a little like any other stretching exercise. If you stretch your hamstrings lightly and consistently, you will slowly increase your range of movement without getting injured. All the different tissues will adapt to the steady stretching at a rate (some faster than others) which ultimately allows you to stretch much further after 3 months than on day one. But if you do too much stretching too quickly for your hamstrings, you’ll either injure the tightest or weakest link in the structures or the tendons will get stronger and harder to elongate to protect the tissues from over-stretching damage.
It is of course all far more complicated than that! But that’s the gist of it in a nutshell.
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