Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Physical Therapy, Association Football, One-Repetition Maximum

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2241A/B
• Professor: Bob Vigars

Document Summary

Fitness: ability to do what you have to do every day without fatigue (lifestyle, job) Common training targets: muscular strength force, muscular power force x velocity. I. e. high jump: very powerful, but not the same as linebacker: local muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance. Great cardiovascular shape for rowing, but not the same for swimming, or biking. I. e. lance armstrong: greatest male cyclist, tried to run marathon, didn"t perform so well: flexibility. Intramuscular coordination results in higher rates of firing motor units. Avoid developing hypertrophy in non-specific motor units. Specificity of training replicate and stimulate the exact movement: rom, body and joint positions, forces and torques, speed of movement (i. e. changing directions, producing same movement repeatedly, contraction type (concentric, eccentric, isometric) Muscles are required to shorten faster than the speed at which the body segment moves. Strength training at accelerated rates via: assisted over-speed work, underweight and overweight implements, eccentric work using antagonists.