Kinesiology
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Dunking a basketball is one of the most captivating things you can do as an athlete, especially if you’re under 6 feet tall. Anyone who’s ever played basketball has likely fantasized at least once about what it would be like to dunk during a game. The only problem is less than 1% of people in…
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We can look at muscle fibers as being on a spectrum with slow twitch on one side and fast twitch on the other side. Type 1, which are slow twitch, uses oxygen to create energy. The upside is they can work for a longer period of time before fatiguing. The downside is they contract the…
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Six pack abs is one of those things in life that nearly everyone wants at least for one point in their life. But very few obtained. Yet Olympic sprinters don’t seem to have that problem. Nearly every single one of them has insane abs. There’s a few obvious reasons why. However, there’s also some less…
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Have you noticed that Olympic sprinters have insane shoulders? I mean not only are they large in size, but they are also even developed, have impressive flexibility and almost never get injured. According to a study, 36 of all resistance training related injuries occur at the shoulder. They identified the biggest risk factors as a…
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As of the date I am writing this post, it has been more than a year since Michael Yessis, a great authority in sports science, passed away. It was on September 15, 2023 when he left this world and left us orphans who learned from the methodology and work he has been developing throughout his…
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In sprinting form makes function. What does this mean? It means that the sprint technique is highly dependent on the differences in muscular balance between agonist and antagonist muscles. Kelly Baggett distinguishes in his book “No-Bull Speed Development Manual” two types of runners based on the predominance of one muscle group or another, with its…
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When performing a movement, the muscles of our body act in the form of kinetic chains. But what is a kinetic chain? We understand the kinetic chain as each part of the body (including muscles, joints and nerves), which is related together to produce a certain movement of the bones. There are several ways to…
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