Stretch-Shortening Cycle of Muscle Function

Neuromuscular Aspects of Sport Performance

Volumn 17, Issue , 2010, Pages 15-31

  Komi, Paavo V ^a   Nicol, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Force and power potential of skeletal muscle, greatest under eccentric actions; Force potentiation phenomenon in eccentric action and actual locomotion; Hopping, jumping, and running most typical forms of SSC; Jump performance at breaking point stretch load and maximal jumping performance; Lowest point of body center of mass (CoM) or transition of horizontal ground reaction force (GRF) record negative (braking) to acceleration (push off) phase; Muscle action sequence or "SSC of muscle function"; Performance potentiation background in SSC; SSC of triceps surae muscle during running cycle beginning with preprogrammed preactivity before toe contact with ground; Stretch shortening cycle of muscle function; Tension changes during stretches, amplitudes and velocities plateau phase, on isolated frog semitendinosus muscle fiber

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053905472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324822.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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