- Title
- Common high-speed running thresholds likely do not correspond to high-speed running in field sports
- Creator
- Freeman, Brock; Talpey, Scott; James, Lachlan; Opar, David; Young, Warren
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/196781
- Identifier
- vital:18760
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000004421
- Identifier
- ISSN:1064-8011 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to clarify what percentage of maximum speed is associated with various running gaits. Fifteen amateur field sport athletes (age = 23 ± 3.6 years) participated in a series of 55-meter running trials. The speed of each trial was determined by instructions relating to 5 previously identified gait patterns (jog, run, stride, near maximum sprint, and sprint). Each trial was filmed in slow motion (240 fps), whereas running speed was obtained using Global Positioning Systems. Contact time, stride angle, and midstance free-leg knee angle were determined from video footage. Running gaits corresponded with the following running speeds, jogging = 4.51 m·s-1, 56%Vmax, running = 5.41 m·s-1, 66%Vmax,striding = 6.37 m·s-1, 78%Vmax, near maximum sprinting = 7.08 m·s-1, 87%Vmax, and sprinting = 8.15 m·s-1, 100%Vmax. Significant (p < 0.05) increases in stride angle were observed as running speed increased. Significant (p < 0.05) decreases were observed in contact time and midstance free-leg knee angle as running speed increased. These findings suggest currently used thresholds for high-speed running (HSR) and sprinting most likely correspond with jogging and striding, which likely underestimates the true HSR demands. Therefore, a higher relative speed could be used to describe HSR and sprinting more accurately in field sports. © 2023 NSCA National Strength and Conditioning Association. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- NSCA National Strength and Conditioning Association
- Relation
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research Vol. 37, no. 7 (2023), p. 1411-1418
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2023 NSCA National Strength and Conditioning Association
- Subject
- 3202 Clinical sciences; 3208 Medical physiology; 4207 Sports science and exercise; Global Positioning System; Movement analysis; Physical preparation; Sprinting; Training and monitoring
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