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The effect of increasing strength and approach velocity on triple jump performance

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posted on 2016-11-02, 13:46 authored by Sam AllenSam Allen, Fred YeadonFred Yeadon, Mark KingMark King
The triple jump is an athletic event comprising three phases in which the optimal phase ratio (the proportion of each phase to the total distance jumped) is unknown. This study used a planar whole body torque-driven computer simulation model of the ground contact parts of all three phases of the triple jump to investigate the effect of strength and approach velocity on optimal performance. The strength and approach velocity of the simulation model were each increased by up to 30% in 10% increments from baseline data collected from a national standard triple jumper. Increasing strength always resulted in an increased overall jump distance. Increasing approach velocity also typically resulted in an increased overall jump distance but there was a point past which increasing approach velocity without increasing strength did not lead to an increase in overall jump distance. Increasing both strength and approach velocity by 10%, 20%, and 30% led to roughly equivalent increases in overall jump distances. Distances ranged from 14.05 m with baseline strength and approach velocity, up to 18.49 m with 30% increases in both. Optimal phase ratios were either hop-dominated or balanced, and typically became more balanced when the strength of the model was increased by a greater percentage than its approach velocity. The range of triple jump distances that resulted from the optimisation process suggests that strength and approach velocity are of great importance for triple jump performance.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Journal of Biomechanics

Volume

49

Issue

16

Pages

3796 - 3802

Citation

ALLEN, S.J., YEADON, M.R. and KING, M.A., 2016. The effect of increasing strength and approach velocity on triple jump performance. Journal of Biomechanics, 49 (16), pp. 3796-3802.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-10-09

Publication date

2016-10-19

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Biomechanics and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.10.009

ISSN

0021-9290

eISSN

1873-2380

Language

  • en