Essays covering a range of topics from weightlifting biomechanics; injury susceptibility in sport; weightlifting training; weightlifting sports science.
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:
listed the following injuries: Knee – ACL + MCL – (2); Knee – ACL – (4); knee (2); Ankle (3); IR – (14); Questionable (7). Am I missing something here? Or, does eight (8) knee injuries seem like a lot for a team under the care of a knee injury expert?
The things that pass for knowledge I can’t understand”, (Becker & Fagen)
“…There are known knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns: the ones we don’t know we don’t know”. Donald Rumsfeld, 2004 The incongruous mix of professions involved in one form or another in the training and care of American athletes: coaches, conditioning coaches, academics, doctors, physical therapists, athletic trainers, personal trainers and …
Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com “How can you have a sport now where you have so much more technology; so much more resources; less contact and more injuries.” Because everything is rubber bands, everything is resistance resistance, everything is cable. There are teams now in the nba that don’t even have a weight room.” Tim Grover, Kobe’s …
Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com “All skilled movement involves controlling which muscles are tensed and which muscles are relaxed. This combining of muscles occurs throughout the body so that all body positions are achieved through the delicate balance of tension and relaxation in each pair of muscles.” Nadori, L. “PHYSICAL PREPARATION OF WEIGHTLIFTERS” Proceedings of the …