In 1978 Pekka Luhtanen and Paavo Komi had an article published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology looking at how different body segments contribute to performance of the vertical jump. At...
Training to increase maximal strength as well as training to increase power have both been found to be effective at improving vertical jump. In general, when one trains to increase maximal strength...
In terms of strength, a number of things are thought to be important. The first is the size of the muscle, it should make sense that a larger muscle is potentially stronger...
There's been a great deal of debate about what qualities are most important for the 100 meter sprinter. Force, direction of force application, power, ability to move the limbs quickly, stride length,...
The muscles that we see under our skin are made up of muscle fibers that run the entire length of the muscle. These fibers are the cells of the muscle. Beyond just...