ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2018
A New Direction to Athletic Performance: Understanding the Acute and Longitudinal Responses to Backward Running.
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- Intensity Zones and Intensity Thresholds Used to Quantify External Load in Competitive Basketball: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates backward walking training.Experimental brain research · 2024Trial
- Effect of 6-week retro or forward walking program on pain, functional disability, quadriceps muscle strength, and performance in individuals with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial (retro-walking trial).BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Trial
- Effects of Repeated Forward Versus Repeated Backward Sprint Training on Physical Fitness Measures in Youth Male Basketball Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of retrograde run training on long jump performances of student athletes: A randomized controlled study.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2026Article
- The effects of backward vs. forward running training on measures of physical fitness in young female handball players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Is there stability in the performance of elite half-marathoners?Sports medicine and health science · 2022Article
- A Comparison of PlayerLoadSports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Biomechanical and metabolic aspects of backward (and forward) running on uphill gradients: another clue towards an almost inelastic rebound.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- Prescribing Target Running Intensities for High-School Athletes: Can Forward and Backward Running Performance Be Autoregulated?Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Backward running (BR) is a form of locomotion that occurs in short bursts during many overground field and court sports. It has also traditionally been used in clinical settings as a method to rehabilitate lower body injuries. Comparisons between BR and forward running (FR) have led to the discovery that both may be generated by the same neural circuitry. Comparisons of the acute responses to FR reveal that BR is characterised by a smaller ratio of braking to propulsive forces, increased step frequency, decreased step length, increased muscle activity and reliance on isometric and concentric muscle actions. These biomechanical differences have been critical in informing recent scientific explorations which have discovered that BR can be used as a method for reducing injury and improving a variety of physical attributes deemed advantageous to sports performance. This includes improved lower body strength and power, decreased injury prevalence and improvements in change of direction performance following BR training. The current findings from research help improve our understanding of BR biomechanics and provide evidence which supports BR as a useful method to improve athlete performance. However, further acute and longitudinal research is needed to better understand the utility of BR in athletic performance programs.
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