This week Mike and Bryan talk through two articles that provide good foundational knowledge for what power is in sports and what are some ways that we can develop power. Some key topics we discussed are the force-time curve, importance of understanding sport demands, and using velocity to train different strength and power characteristics.

The articles can be found here: https://www.nsca.com/contentassets/3840c3dfe42742128e32c09bea3e1981/developing_powerful_athletes_part_1__mechanical.4.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOoqlqmRoaDFASX7TMEetqLy7eUepfHlf4kTbnfsMWprSNe9of4NT

https://www.nsca.com/contentassets/e4dd144726594fd3ba2cc4af571d6079/developing_powerful_athletes_part_2__practical.3.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOopRvfkbYImmhNLxj1AT6U77uElSYdl-PWx0UdIoQiN69zVfBUc_

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Data Nerds is a new series that we are introducing which will be alternating weeks with our usual journal club podcast. In this series, we share cases from our clinical practice where we utilize objective testing to inform our decision making, with most attention paid to the results of the tests and interpretation of the information. Therefore, this works best when you can see the numbers. Luckily, these are uploaded to our YouTube channel! Check us out at https://www.youtube.com/@ReadingRehab.

In this episode, Mike talks through a case where he used the Runeasi gait analysis system to look at changes to a runner's gait over time to see if there were certain thresholds to when she started feeling pain.

This week we discuss knee and ankle strength demands during deceleration tasks. The biggest takeaway is that from a short acceleration, 5 meters, both knee and ankle strength were significantly correlated to deceleration performance. However, with a 10 meter accelereation, knee extension strength variables were the only ones to relate to deceleration performance. This was a great discussion about constraining environments for deceleration and isokinetic testing, to possible ankle exercises to address deceleration.

The abstract can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39882763/

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