Specificity of exercises
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Exercises should aim to provide the athlete with some transfer to their sport.
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Environmental monitoring: Ground, recreating situations with reactive similarities.
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Proprioception: Similar sensory patterns
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Intention: Similarity in intention of movement.
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Intramuscular: Jumping 45 degree anterior- vertical
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Intermuscular: Using glute and leg structures integrated
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Outside: Similarity in joint movements
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Structural-Central-Peripheral Energy
Since it is impossible to perfectly mimic the sport itself, it is a good idea to focus on one or more aspects in transfer.
Central & Peripheral
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Central = Specificity, exercises very close to movement.
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Peripheral = Unspecific, exercise not close to movement.
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Usually separated in S&C.
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Specific character of movement is important.
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Movement has to be controlled and structured in the brain. There might be a limited “movement memory”. (2)
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S&C with variation in overload (motor control & load) in the movement context teaches us to use certain control mechanisms which are rapid and adaptive by nature.
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Central exercises are very hard to “overload” while Peripheral exercises are non-specific but easy to overload.
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No exercise can combine high load with specificity, and this is not our end goal either.
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We believe that a high contextual variation of movement should be used for transferability to the sport.
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