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Written by Superhuman
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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Researchers from California State University, Fullerton, led by Daniel Murray, showed that high-velocity training (knee extensions) improved ...
standing long jump slightly, but had no effect on 15- or 40-meter sprint times. The training program involved four weeks of high- or low-velocity knee extension training on a Biodex machine. This was an interesting study showing the benefits of high-velocity training. However, the hip extensor muscles are more important than the knee extensors for performance in the sprints or standing long jump. Their results may have been more favorable had they used high-velocity training with those muscle groups. Also, Sports science pioneer Franklin Henry from the University of California, Berkeley, developed the principle of specificity of training in the 1950s. His studies showed that movements were highly specific, which means that skill development is unique to a given movement performed at a given speed. In other words, you will perform best when your practice is similar to the actual movement. (Journal Strength Conditioning Research, 21: 870–874. 2007
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