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Warren Young

The speed-specificity of Olympic lifting for sprinting

November 23, 2018/by Warren Young

This summer I wrote about the specificity of resistance training for sprinting. Specificity of training has multiple elements to it, including biomechanical and metabolic relationships between training exercises and sports performance. The focus of that article was on the movement patterns and range of motion at joints, and it was concluded that typical resistance training exercises performed in the weight room lack specificity for sprinting. These exercises may be very effective for developing intra-muscular neural factors, but cannot optimally develop inter-muscular coordination factors.


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Tags: Featured, General Training, Olympic Lifting, Speed, Speed-Strength, Sports Science, Sprinting, Transfer of Training, Velocity-Based Training
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Dr Warren Young is an Associate Professor in Exercise & Sport Science at Federation University Australia.

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