Before we dive into the specific differences between the ROM of the muscle vs the movement, we will first define range of motion and break it down into its three general types:
“Range of motion is one of the most important variables that you need to individualize for every person and every exercise because ultimately, training in the appropriate range of motion is going to protect somebody from injury and make sure that the tissue that you’re trying to work is working that entire time. The second you go to a point to the range where now, other structures are being loaded, the weight’s now going on joints or other musculature, you can no longer account for what the metabolic stress or the neurological stress is going to be for that tissue because you’re essentially loading it and unloading it by going within a range of motion that it can work and then out of that range of motion.”, as Coach Kassem Hanson states in the Level 1 Biomechanics and Execution course.
Learn more about the ranges of motion in this article