Essays and commentary on a variety of topics including textbooks on strength training, debunking myths of strength training, and the like.
A rapidly straightening of the leg immediately preceding ground contact (late swing phase of sprinting); when hamstring injury occurs most frequently; is connected with rising resistance to passive stretching of muscles:
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If you are training in such a fashion that your muscles don’t hurt doing the exercise, don’t bother. Quit.” (with a rising emote of anger, assertiveness). Arthur Jones.
Super – charged release of energy critical for dynamic sport, is neither cultivated with machines, nor training muscles until they “hurt”. Jones’ claim, training with barbell exercises are deficient; obscures the fact the human body is designed to generate power beyond intrinsic properties of muscles.
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Laying down of an excess of intra – muscular connective tissue reduces the elasticity of the muscle (Gudz, 1975); which in its turn, would tend to increase resistance to passive stretching of the affected muscles.
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The smaller amplitude of movement in strength exercises involve less coordination, muscle relaxation skills; exercises which the derivative devotees promote: “… may provide a training stimulus that is as good as, if not better than, weightlifting movements that include the catch phase”;(1).
There is no basis for this in fact or fantasy.
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The last place one should look for knowledge, for expertise in dynamic sport is in the classroom.
The most disingenuous remark of video 2 is “Our athletes rarely train bodybuilding”
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