Dejan Madic¹, Dragan Doder², Dragana Golik - Peric²

¹Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, Novi Sad
²Pokrajinski zavod za sport Vojvodine

RELATIONS OF JUMPING SUCCESSFULNESS AND STRENGTH OF UPPER LEG MUSCLES EVALUATED BY ISOKINETIC METHOD APPLIED ON TOP GYMNASTS

RELACIJE USPEŠNOSTI NA PRESKOKU I SNAGE NATKOLENE MUSKULATURE PROCENJENE IZOKINETIČKOM METODOM KOD VRHUNSKIH GIMNASTIČARA

Sport Mont 2008, VI(15-16-17), 172-176

Abstract

Research in the field of balance of agonist and antagonist muscle groups is very important in top sport. As soon as certain misbalance of antagonist muscle groups is found, it is fully justifiable to advise sportsmen and other professionals involved in their training process to apply extra work in order to strengthen the muscle groups which were weaker than their antagonists. This is highly important for establishing stability of articulations where a movement is generated by means of particular musculature. In case of a good balance, this also means better protection of articulation-bone system, as well as muscles stretched in the highest-amplitude movements, which might be broken due to the contraction of antagonist muscle groups. Good strength balance of antagonist muscle groups is also important in view of the fact that the above muscles represent active fixers of an actual joint. However, in top sport where health prevention aspect is not the predominant one, it happens that the only criterion for strength development in certain muscle groups is the one on which competition successfulness depends directly and to a greatest extent, where as “less important muscle groups” are often neglected. The Paper analyses the above problems on the sample of male sport gymnasts and their successfulness in jumping.

Keywords

Sports gymnastics, men, jump, muscular misbalance, isokintetics

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