Affiliation:
1. Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Australia.
2. School of Health Sciences and Physiotherapy, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia;
3. School of Allied Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;
4. School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia; and
5. Sports Performance, Recovery, Injury and New Technologies (SPRINT) Research Centre, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia
Abstract
Abstract
Freeman, BW, Talpey, SW, James, LP, Opar, DA, and Young, WB. Common high-speed running thresholds likely do not correspond to high-speed running in field sports. J Strength Cond Res 37(7): 1411–1418, 2023—The purpose of this study was to clarify what percentage of maximum speed is associated with various running gaits. Fifteen amateur field sport athletes (age = 23 ± 3.6 years) participated in a series of 55-meter running trials. The speed of each trial was determined by instructions relating to 5 previously identified gait patterns (jog, run, stride, near maximum sprint, and sprint). Each trial was filmed in slow motion (240 fps), whereas running speed was obtained using Global Positioning Systems. Contact time, stride angle, and midstance free-leg knee angle were determined from video footage. Running gaits corresponded with the following running speeds, jogging = 4.51 m·s−1, 56%Vmax, running = 5.41 m·s−1, 66%Vmax, striding = 6.37 m·s−1, 78%Vmax, near maximum sprinting = 7.08 m·s−1, 87%Vmax, and sprinting = 8.15 m·s−1, 100%Vmax. Significant (p < 0.05) increases in stride angle were observed as running speed increased. Significant (p < 0.05) decreases were observed in contact time and midstance free-leg knee angle as running speed increased. These findings suggest currently used thresholds for high-speed running (HSR) and sprinting most likely correspond with jogging and striding, which likely underestimates the true HSR demands. Therefore, a higher relative speed could be used to describe HSR and sprinting more accurately in field sports.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,General Medicine
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