On 1/21/01, Nutta-On Promjunyakul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
< My name's Nutta-on. I'm a Master degree's student in Physical Therapy
faculty of Mahidol University, Thailand. Now I'm going to start my Master
thesis about plyometric training , I want measure power of athlete
after they got plyometric training. >
***How are you going to measure power? Will you be using force plates or
more basic vertical jump tests to estimate power? Do you intend measuring
changes in upper and lower body power? What sort of training and measurement
'protocol' have you decided upon?
Firstly, it is important to note that plyometric training is not really
intended to be a training modality on its own, as is commonly believed, since
my Russian colleagues have found superior results if plyometrics form part of
a well planned training "complex" involving several different types of
strength training (see Siff M C "Supertraining" 2000) Chs 5, 6, where I
discuss the topic in great detail).
If you wish to search through the literature, then hunt through Medline or
PubMed, using the terms "stretch shortening", "plyometrics", "stretch",
"explosive training", "elastic" and so on - you will find a large number of
articles which relate to so-called "plyometric training".
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://www.egroups.com/group/supertraining
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