Talks
Athlete monitoring throughout a strength and conditioning program
Athlete monitoring in strength and conditioning is more than just occasionally attempting to determine the maximum amount an athlete can lift for one repetition. Weekly and possibly daily monitoring may yield much more useful information for coaches and scientists. Athlete monitoring can lead the coaches to a better understanding of how an athlete is responding to the training process, providing measures of progress, and possibly predict future performance and disruptions in preparedness.
This talk will include a research based justification for athlete monitoring as well as recommendations from research on the potential variables to monitor. It will also include information on how to design and implement athlete monitoring protocols as well as how to interpret the data obtained from them. Both acute and long-term athlete monitoring protocols will be discussed and examples from actual athlete monitoring data will be presented.
Weightlifting derivatives with relation to various loads
The objective of presentation is to introduce practical approach of utilizing weightlifting derivatives at different loads. Maximizing power output is essential to athletic performance in closed-chain situations, but it is often a challenge for strength coaches to understand what kind of lifts are important for different types of athletes.
When teaching Olympic-style lifting to athletes, it may take additional time for athletes to master the technique correctly. At the same time, some athletes may want to avoid certain positions, such as catching the bar with excessive wrist hyperextension. This presentation provides several Olympic-style lifting variations that are easy to teach for strength coaches, and easy to perform for athletes. Additionally, the presentation also contains a rationale as to why different loads can stimulate different motor patterns with respect to different characteristics of sports. By using a force-velocity curve, those specific exercises will be introduced.
From external to internal loading during Squats, Dead Lifts & Goodmornings
Strength training is not only important for rehabilitation, for enhancing performance, during prevention, but is also of great benefit to everyone. That is why the WHO recommends strength training 3 times a week for adults. From a biomechanical point of view, based on kinetic and kinematic measurements during strength training, the internal loading conditions can be calculated. Using muscle optimization, the muscle forces can be estimated. These loading conditions are the key for setting the right stimuli to the human tissues. This talk covers the motion and loading during the strength exercises Squats, Dead lifts & Goodmornings, the inverse dynamics and gives insights into whole body simulation.
Loading conditions and movement pattern during hyperextensions
Hyperextensions are used by many athletes to train the muscles of the back and the dorsal hip. It is, therefore, essential to give training recommendations based on the knowledge of loadings in the joints during the exercise. In the study on the hyperextension strengthening exercise, the kinetics and kinematics during different execution forms of the hyperextensions have been evaluated. The aim of this talk is to illustrate the methods used to evaluate the kinetics and kinematics of the hyperextensions as well as to present the most important results.