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Normative Reference of the Single Leg, Medial Countermovement Jump in Adolescent Youth Ice Hockey Players

Sports, 2021
Functional performance tests provide quantitative information on specialized sport movements and are important for documenting training and fatigue. The single leg, medial countermovement jump provides objective measures of frontal plane force, velocity ...
Anthony S. Donskov, Jeffrey S. Brooks, James P. Dickey   +2 more
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Accuracy of Jump-Mat Systems for Measuring Jump Height [PDF]

, 2017
Vertical-jump tests are commonly used to evaluate lower-limb power of athletes and nonathletes. Several types of equipment are available for this purpose.
Hopkins, Will G., Jimenez-Olmedo, Jose Manuel, Lipinska, Patrycja, Pueo, Basilio, Zmijewski, Piotr   +4 more
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Maturation-, age-, and sex-specific anthropometric and physical fitness percentiles of German elite young athletes.

PLoS ONE, 2020
The aim of this study was to establish maturation-, age-, and sex-specific anthropometric and physical fitness percentile reference values of young elite athletes from various sports.
Melanie Lesinski, Alina Schmelcher, Michael Herz, Christian Puta, Holger Gabriel, Adamantios Arampatzis, Gunnar Laube, Dirk Büsch, Urs Granacher   +8 more
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Dynamic balance and explosive strength appears to better explain single leg hop test results among young elite female basketball athletes

Scientific Reports, 2023
To analyze the impact of balance, lower-limb explosive strength and anthropometric variables on the result of the hop test in young elite female basketball athletes.
Fernando Dominguez-Navarro, Jose Casaña, Borja Perez-Dominguez, Borja Ricart-Luna, Pedro Cotolí-Suárez, Joaquin Calatayud   +5 more
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Clustering U-14 Portuguese regional team football players by lower limb strength, power, dynamic balance, speed and change of direction: understanding the field position factor [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Objectives The aim of this study was to cluster U-14 Portuguese regional team football players based on variables related to lower limb strength and power, dynamic balance, linear sprint, and change of direction.
Tatiana Sampaio, Daniel Marinho, José Eduardo Teixeira, João Oliveira, Jorge Morais   +4 more
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Countermovement, Hurdle, and Box Jumps: Data-Driven Exercise Selection

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2023
Apart from squat jumps, countermovement jumps (CMJ), and drop jumps, differences among other jump variations are not as well researched, making data-driven exercise selection difficult. To address this gap, this study compared selected concentric and eccentric jump parameters of maximal effort CMJ, hurdle jumps over 50 cm hurdle (HJ), and box jumps ...
M. Tino Janikov, Jan Pádecký, Valentin Doguet, James J. Tufano   +3 more
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The acute effect of different massage durations on squat jump, countermovement jump and flexibility performance in muay thai athletes

Physical Education of Students, 2021
Background and Study Aim. Muay thai is a combat sport in which the competitors kick, punch, knee, elbow and growl with their opponents. The strength of the leg muscles can increase the intensity of the kick and its flexibility is a well-known issue for ...
Ramazan Bayer, Özgür Eken
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Differences in the Biomechanics of the Vertical Jumps in Young Adult Handball Players: Effect of the Countermovement and the Arm Swing

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series IX Sciences of Human Kinetics, 2022
The purpose of the study was to examine the sex and jump test effect on the biomechanics of vertical jump performance in young adult handball players. Nineteen men and 19 women handball players were tested in the squat jump (SQJ) and the
V. Panoutsakopoulos, M.C. Kotzamanidou, A.K. Giannakos   +2 more
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Comparing the effects of plyometric and isometric strength training on dynamic and isometric force-time characteristics

Biology of Sport, 2021
The purpose of the study was to compare the change in dynamic and isometric force-time characteristics after plyometric (PLYO) or isometric strength training (ISO).
Danny Lum, Paul Comfort, Tiago M. Barbosa, Govindasamy Balasekaran   +3 more
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Gluteus Maximus Activity during Bilateral Countermovement Jump in D1 Female Athletes [PDF]

, 2020
The objective of this study was to compare left and right gluteus maximus muscle activation in division one (D1) female basketball players, while performing a countermovement (CMJ).
Stoller, Addison
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