Effects of power and flexibility training on vertical jump technique

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 478-486

  Hunter, Joseph P ^a   Marshall, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bounce drop jump; Countermovement drop jump; Eccentric lower limb stiffness; Jump technique continuum; Stretching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; STRETCHING; TECHNIQUE; TENDON RECEPTOR;

EID: 0036195195     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-200203000-00015     Document Type: Article

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