Quantifying muscle patterns and spine load during various forms of the push-up

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 570-577

  Freeman, Stephanie ^a   Karpowicz, Amy ^a   Gray, John ^a   McGill, Stuart ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exercise; Plyometric; Spine compression; Strength; Training

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PERFORMANCE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TORQUE; TRAINING; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; TRUNK; WEIGHT BEARING;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; EVALUATION STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ONTARIO; SPINE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33644848652     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000189317.08635.1b     Document Type: Article

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