What is the blue boxed area of the propulsive phase of the countermovement (CMJ) signal called? It’s called the weighing phase and as the name suggests, it is a phase of quiet standing on a force plate where the force plate/s quantify your body weight. Does this phase serve any purpose? For sure! Read this blog to find out more...
read BLOGWhy not get some eccentric quasi-isometric(EQI) strength training into your fast bowlers? You might be saying that eccentrics makes sense but training using at near zero velocity contractions(quasi-isometric) doesn’t make so much sense for the fast-bowling action. Let’s back up the bus and look at the why before the how.
To really understand the effect of velocity of movement on mechanical-muscular work, you will see a rudimentary example of how squatting 100 kg/220 lbs requires similar additional muscular work at the hip as moving 500 gms/~17 oz on each leg during sprinting. Warning, if you are not into biomechanics, push fast forward and skip this next section and get to the take home messaging of the following section. However, if you’re wanting a deeper understanding of why WR works, then read on.
So how can light loads of 200-400 gm (7 to 14 oz) be called resistance strength training? How can the RPE be 25-30% (previous post) harder when sprinting with such loads as compared to an unloaded sprint? A lot of the explanation comes down to a concept called rotational inertia. So if you want to learn how rotational inertia contributes to rotational overload buckle up, the wheels are about to spin.
Have you heard of haltere loading? If you haven’t, jump inside this article for a few minutes and get a heads up on one of the training methods used by the ancient Greeks.
Have you ever tried cable single leg horizontal decelerations? Just want to continue that theme of developing horizontal braking ability so thought I’d share some research we did a few years back which was interesting. Join me in a five-minute read, which may unlock some interesting training applications for you.
Let’s explore another way of getting you or your athletes faster. Previously we looked at how you can use limb loaded wearable resistance (WR) to train step frequency. This article unpacks how you can train step length to improve speed.
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