Power in athletic competition is a sought after ability by almost all athletes. Power is simply the ability to produce the most amount of force in the shortest amount of time. Genetic capabilities often determine how much power an individual athlete could potentially produce, but there are specific modalities of training that can be done to optimize power regardless of genetics:
-plyometric exercises promote high movement speed, fast twitch fibre recruitment and elastic tendon energy release.
-Olympic lifts involve very high power outputs, high rates of force production and increases in muscular co-ordination of whole-body movements, such as combined ankle, knee and hip extension.
-ballistic weight exercises are very useful for developing high power in specific areas of the body – eg arm extension power with bench press throws – and will result in high rates of force production and muscle activity in the specific muscle groups involved.
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