How to Understand Closed vs. Open Kinetic Chain Exercises
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Wow, they really had to make these descriptive terms this complicated for a concept that isn't that crazy huh.
Open kinetic chain exercises and closed kinetic chain exercises are terms that are used to describe different types of exercises or movement that our body performs. The main focus of what makes them different, is found in what we're pushing on.
If we are moving something with our hands or feet that moves in space, or against gravity, then we're doing an open kinetic chain exercise. Think, bicep curls, leg extensions, or overhead press.
If we are using our hands or feet to push on something that's NOT moving, then we are doing a closed kinetic chain exercise. Think, squats, lunges, deadlifts, pushups.
Which is better depends on the situation, one isn't necessarily better all the time. Hope my perfect form demonstrations are helpful for you all out there :)
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This was a very helpful video with the visuals and the lines drawn out to help understand, closed and open kinetic chain! Thanks so much
You are so welcome! The lines helped me visualize it, so glad it was also able to help you!
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If Chuck Norris does a push up is it open or closed chain?
The course I'm taking asks the following question:
"When the body is stabilized by external assistance during exercises such as a bench, it is termed a _______."
It says the answer is "open kinetic chain exercise," which is deeply confusing to me, even having watched this video. Doesn't this question rely on the exercise being performed? I'm feeling pretty stupid right now because I just don't seem to understand why the answer to that question is "open kinetic chain exercise." Ugh.
Hey there, thanks for the question!
The wording of that question seems pretty roundabout, because it seems as though what it's asking about is implied as opposed to directly stated. If the body is stabilized by external assistance, then I think what they're implying is that the extremities or limbs MUST be unstabilized and moving freely thus making it an open kinetic chain exercise. Basically, if your body is stabilized in one position, then your hands or feet must be free to move, otherwise no movement will be occurring whatsoever because both the body AND the extremities are stabilized.
A pretty tricky wording on that one because it seems to be relying on what's implied, but that would be my best understanding of it!
Is pull up / chin up closed kinetic chain or open kinetic chain ?
I know, that one's a bit confusing right! Normally we're using the ground, wall, or a bench to close the circuit, and in the case of a chin up things are a bit different to picture.
A chin up would be a closed kinetic chain exercise though, as the bar itself is fixed and not moving. The body is "free" to move, but this is also the case in closed kinetic chain movements like a pushup (picture a chin-up like a pushup on a bar).
Hope this is helpful!
So what about oulling a weight i can't move is that closed
Good question!
If by pulling that weight you pulled your body towards the weight, then it would become a closed kinetic chain exercise. This is a pretty niche scenario though, mimicking a closed kinetic chain exercise of a pull up, but the location of the weight (on the ground, rack, wherever) and the position of gravity will obviously dictate how realistic of an "exercise" it is.