SUBJECT- AND JOINT-SPECIFIC STRATEGIES USED BY MALE BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO MAXIMIZE COUNTERMOVEMENT JUMP HEIGHT

Authors

Kristof Kipp
Michael Kiely
Matthew Giordanelli
Philip Malloy
Christopher Geiser

Category

Implement sports

Document Type

Paper

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to study the subject- and joint-specific strategies that male basketball players use to increase countermovement jump (CMJ) height. Lower extremity joint kinematics and kinetics were recorded as 11 male, NCAA Division I basketball players performed 8-10 CMJ with increasing effort. Correlations between maximal potential energy of players’ centre-of-mass (surrogate for CMJ height) and the amount of eccentric and concentric work done at the hip, knee, and ankle joint Singlesubject and group-average analyses were used to study. The group-average analysis showed that all joint work variables predicted potential energy, whereas the singlesubject analysis revealed varying levels of subject-specific correlations (i.e., joint-specific CMJ strategies) that did not necessarily reflect the group-average data.

Recommended Citation

Kipp, Kristof; Kiely, Michael; Giordanelli, Matthew; Malloy, Philip; and Geiser, Christopher (2017) "SUBJECT- AND JOINT-SPECIFIC STRATEGIES USED BY MALE BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO MAXIMIZE COUNTERMOVEMENT JUMP HEIGHT," ISBS Proceedings Archive: Vol. 35: Iss. 1, Article 69.
Available at: https://commons.nmu.edu/isbs/vol35/iss1/69