Hi Keith & Mel,
I intend to write with a longer reply but as far as my simple brain can gather, Titin sits at the Z-band and seems to play an instrumental role in skeletal muscle (and cardiac m/s) "stiffness". Which leads me to discuss...
I think the work you are doing fits in nicely with the concept of relative flexibility - that is the area of greatest flexibility relative to other segments tends to be the one I find hurts and generates poor torque/force output. I find very few practitioners utilise muscle plasticity & particularly hypertrophy to stiffen flexible (and therefore frequently injured) joints. As far as ballistic work is concerned, I imagine you have used movement analyis to reveal where in the motion athletes are dissapating (? correct spelling) forces?
Anyhow...it's Saturday night & I'm having a beer...the strong get stronger, the weak get weaker & the stiff stay stiff...I am still talking about kinetic chains here or is this an ad for Viagra?
Cheers!
Owen Moore
Nottingham, England.
(does MIchael Yessis still write stuff for Muscle & fitness magazine...he was well into plyometrics & hypertrophy via his Soviet Sports Review quarterly)
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From: Keith Zenker DC [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 31 May 2000 16:43
To: physio
Subject: RE: Muscle Tension & Hypertrophy
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