High‐speed stretch‐shortening cycle exercises as a strategy to provide eccentric overload during resistance training

Author(s):  
Jose Luis Hernández‐Davó ◽  
Rafael Sabido ◽  
Anthony J. Blazevich

2017 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Neme Ide ◽  
Thiago Fernando Lourenco ◽  
Rene Brenzikofer ◽  
Denise Vaz Macedo


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Schrödter ◽  
Gert-Peter Brüggemann ◽  
Steffen Willwacher

Purpose:To describe the stretch-shortening behavior of ankle plantar-flexing muscle–tendon units (MTUs) during the push-off in a sprint start.Methods:Fifty-four male (100-m personal best: 9.58–12.07 s) and 34 female (100-m personal best: 11.05–14.00 s) sprinters were analyzed using an instrumented starting block and 2-dimensional high-speed video imaging. Analysis was performed separately for front and rear legs, while accounting for block obliquities and performance levels.Results:The results showed clear signs of a dorsiflexion in the upper ankle joint (front block 15.8° ± 7.4°, 95% CI 13.2–18.2°; rear block 8.0° ± 5.7°, 95% CI 6.4–9.7°) preceding plantar flexion. When observed in their natural block settings, the athletes’ block obliquity did not significantly affect push-off characteristics. It seems that the stretch-shortening-cycle-like motion of the soleus MTU has an enhancing influence on push-off force generation.Conclusion:This study provides the first systematic observation of ankle-joint stretch-shortening behavior for sprinters of a wide range of performance levels. The findings highlight the importance of reactive-type training for the improvement of starting performance. Nonetheless, future studies need to resolve the independent contributions of tendinous and muscle-fascicle structures to overall MTU performance.





2019 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 79-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
João B. Ferreira-Júnior ◽  
Hugo César Martins-Costa ◽  
Ricardo Reis Dinardi


2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário C. Marques ◽  
Mikel Izquierdo ◽  
Ana Pereira


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Neme Ide ◽  
Lázaro Alessandro Soares Nunes ◽  
René Brenzikofer ◽  
Denise Vaz Macedo

The purpose of this study was to observe the time course of muscle damage and inflammatory responses following an eccentric overload resistance-training (EO) program. 3 females (23.8 ± 2.6 years; 70.9 ± 12.7 kg; 1.6 ± 0.08 m) and 5 males (23.8 ± 2.6 years; 75.1 ± 11.2 kg; 1.8 ± 0.1 m) underwent thirteen training sessions (4 × 8–10 eccentric-only repetitions—80% of eccentric 1RM, one-minute rest, 2x week−1, during 7 weeks, for three exercises). Blood samples were collected prior to (Pre) and after two (P2), seven (P7), nine (P9), eleven (P11), and thirteen (P13) sessions, always 96 hours after last session. The reference change values (RCV) analysis was employed for comparing the responses, and the percentual differences between the serial results were calculated for each subject and compared with RCV95%. Four subjects presented significant changes for creatine kinase at P2, and another two at P13; six for C-reactive protein at P2, and three at P11; two for neutrophils at P2, P4, and P13, respectively; and only one for white blood cells at P2, P4, P7, and P9, for lymphocyte at P7, P9, and P13, and for platelet at P4. We conclude that EO induced high magnitude of muscle damage and inflammatory responses in the initial phase of the program with subsequent attenuation.



1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S233
Author(s):  
J. F. Signorile ◽  
L. Sochet ◽  
A. Morgenstern ◽  
J. Caruso ◽  
J. Puhl ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Ramírez-Campillo ◽  
Angélica Castillo ◽  
Carlos I. de la Fuente ◽  
Christian Campos-Jara ◽  
David C. Andrade ◽  
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