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What’s the optimal type of training to develop strength and hypertrophy? What’s the minimal dose? These are pertinent questions within rehabilitation and the focus of lots of recent research. Recently a research paper suggested comparable
What’s the optimal type of training to develop strength and hypertrophy? What’s the minimal dose? These are pertinent questions within rehabilitation and the focus of lots of recent research. Recently a research paper suggested comparable
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Identifying & Limiting Learning Effects In Your Strength Tests
Testing performance is important, but not as important as testing performance accurately. Many factors can influence the accuracy of a test. All factors are important, some are really simple to control. In this post we’re
In the last post we looked at assessment of muscle strength. RFD, or rate of force development is another important metric describing muscle performance. It represents the rapidity of force production, and if you want
How To Assess Strength – Contraction Length & Rest Explained
I’ve been really enjoying of late teaching lots of courses on dynamometry and a question that often comes up is: how long do we hold the contraction for? So in this post we’re going to
I think it’s time to revisit this topic. Prompted by a recent publication, in this post we’re going to cover RFD vs strength, outline how they are different and then the specificity needed to rehabilitate
Why Does Sampling Frequency Matter In Dynamometry?
Hi there and welcome to the third in this series about assessing performance and dynamometry. To obtain objective measures of muscle performance is important to help judge improvements and in support of treatment decision-making, but
Isokinetic Testing Is Not The Gold Standard
Continuing with the theme of assessment, in this post we’re focussing on isokinetics. Quite a provocative title perhaps, but for some reason isokinetics appear to be held as the ultimate assessment method to which everything
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