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Dennis Dolan
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Plyo videos have multiple informative attachments/reference links in them. Get them all.
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I went with physical assessment tool.
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One that I see all the time in a clinical setting is the Functional Movement Screen by Dr Gray Cook.
This is a series of 7 exercises that are designed to assess for limitations in mobility and stability.
As you can see above the benefits, as they say, are listed. By looking at the pictures you can easily tell the faults in these tests. First off, none of the tests are done in positions that are reproduced in exercise or sport. The squat is too narrow, the lunge is atrocious, on and on. Also, nothing is assessed while the athlete is getting into these positions. Second, the use of the equipment is awkward and limiting for everything being measured is in a straight line with feet together. Third, this test is not to be used if the athlete is experiencing pain, there is another Cook test for that, the SFMA (Selective Functional Movement Assessment). I have seen plenty of athletes who have faults/limitation scores on this test that perform without issue on the field.
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With regards to what? Assignment? Discussion? Homework?
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John touched on the differences between an amateur athlete and a trained athlete by how they perform movement patterns from rep to rep. The trained athlete gets in and performs perfectly right out of the gate, because that is what they have trained to do. The amateur athlete will struggle with the first rep and gradually improve with each consecutive rep. This has to do with the athletes ability to develop a meaningful kinaesthetic sense and reliable proprioception. This kinaesthetic sense “provides essential information to the brain to enable movements to be performed by the relevant muscles and limbs in specific patterns at a certain velocity and intensity,” (Siff. 70). Having time and reps under a barbell will allow the athlete to develop a proprioception about how their joints are positioned and move under stress/weight. What I found fascinating was “proprioception is second only to pain in causing the most intense widespread electrical activity in the brain,” (Siff. 70). Muscle memory, much like what @benkuch was speaking of in his 3rd point, is ingrained as it develops and the trained athlete will not struggle the way an amateur will to produce effective movement patterns. Whereas, “the unskilled athlete not only produces inefficient patterns, intensities and timing of movements, but he also recruits muscles which serve no purpose in controlling those movements, (Siff 71). Proprioceptive and kinaesthetic awareness is lacking, but will develop and be autonomic to the athlete as they progress through SAID principles of training.
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RGIII’s problems started at Baylor, everyone there should be fired as well.
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We are supposed to use recruitment is what I took from lecture. I second the poster
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I have had to try to upload videos multiple times. It always came back to wifi strength of signal though.
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I am so glad to see that you all have seen through this. At KU in 1997-98, during my classes my Head ATC and all of my Professors saw right through it and therefore never taught it and used it as an example of “toys for profit”.
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Nice Carl! No bullshit, this is what you are going to do. Eliminates a ton of false-positives
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1. Even highly trained athletes cannot access all of their fast twitch fibers. The recruitment will be determined by force demands and amateur athletes are not moving the weight or at the velocity that trained athletes are.
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Carl, that was exactly what I was saying when I said coordination was not a limiting factor because of lack of experience, whereas hormonal imbalances or deficiencies, biomechanical differences and genetics are ingrained in the athlete from the get go. Coordination or lack thereof will be a limiting factor in the elite athlete though because even through progressive work they have not adapted or learned that skill.
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I do not think that coordination is a limiting factor at all, it is trained just as the muscles are. Just because it is not developed, does not mean there is not a propensity for it. When you move to an elite athlete or an amateur that has trained for a significant period of time, then it is a huge deal. Throw hypertrophy in with it, Z-man said that while size of growth and/or muscle mass might not be significant due to hormonal deficiencies, the strength gained is significant when training the amateur athlete.
