The influence of lightweight wearable resistance on whole body coordination during sprint acceleration among Australian Rules football players.

ABSTRACT: Rapid acceleration is an important quality for field-based sport athletes. Technical factors contribute to acceleration and these can be deliberately influenced by coaches through implementation of constraints, which afford particular coordinative states or induce variability generally. Lightweight wearable resistance is an emerging training tool, which can act as a constraint on acceleration. At present, however, the effects on whole body coordination resulting from wearable resistance application are unknown. To better understand these effects, five male Australian Rules football athletes performed a series of 20 m sprints with either relatively light or heavy wearable resistance applied to the anterior or posterior aspects of the thighs or shanks. Whole body coordination during early ac

SUBMITTER: Trounson KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11537414 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature