Trial reportPloS one2019
Sprint mechanical variables in elite athletes: Are force-velocity profiles sport specific or individual?
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Comparative Effects of Tabata Training and Periodized Resistance Training on Power, Speed and Agility in Sprinters.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Instability core trainingPeerJ · 2025Pooled it
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- The Training of Medium- to Long-Distance Sprint Performance in Football Code Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
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- Microscale velocity-dependent unbinding generates a macroscale performance-efficiency tradeoff in actomyosin systems.Communications biology · 2025Article
- The Rate of Torque Development as a Determinant of the Torque-Velocity Relationship.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Article
- Relationships between horizontal jump kinematics and sprint performance in female sprinters and team sport athletes.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Relationships between the ground reaction force during initial sprint acceleration and the vertical force-velocity profile.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effect of two training modalities on sprint performance in young American football players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- The training and development process for a world-class female handball player: a longitudinal and retrospective case study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Associations Between Sprint Mechanical Properties and Change of Direction Ability and Asymmetries in COD Speed Performance in Basketball and Volleyball Players.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeThe main aim of this investigation was to quantify differences in sprint mechanical variables across sports and within each sport. Secondary aims were to quantify sex differences and relationships among the variables.
methodsIn this cross-sectional study of elite athletes, 235 women (23 ± 5 y and 65 ± 7 kg) and 431 men (23 ± 4 y and 80 ± 12 kg) from 23 different sports (including 128 medalists from World Championships and/or Olympic Games) were tested in a 40-m sprint at the Norwegian Olympic Training Center between 1995 and 2018. These were pre-existing data from quarterly or semi-annual testing that the athletes performed for training purposes. Anthropometric and speed-time sprint data were used to calculate the theoretical maximal velocity, horizontal force, horizontal power, slope of the force-velocity relationship, maximal ratio of force, and index of force application technique.
resultsSubstantial differences in mechanical profiles were observed across sports. Athletes in sports in which sprinting ability is an important predictor of success (e.g., athletics sprinting, jumping and bobsleigh) produced the highest values for most variables, whereas athletes in sports in which sprinting ability is not as important tended to produce substantially lower values. The sex differences ranged from small to large, depending on variable of interest. Although most of the variables were strongly associated with 10- and 40-m sprint time, considerable individual differences in sprint mechanical variables were observed among equally performing athletes.
conclusionsOur data from a large sample of elite athletes tested under identical conditions provides a holistic picture of the force-velocity-power profile continuum in athletes. The data indicate that sprint mechanical variables are more individual than sport specific. The values presented in this study could be used by coaches to develop interventions that optimize the training stimulus to the individual athlete.
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