Strength And Power In Sport: Olympic Encyclopedia Of Sports Medicine (the Encyclopaedia Of Sports Medicine)

STRENGTH AND POWER IN SPORT VOLUME III OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SPORTS MEDICINE AN IOC MEDICAL COMMISSION PUBLICATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SPORTS MEDICINE EDITED BY PAAVO V. KOMI SECOND EDITION Blackwell Science STRENGTH AND POWER IN SPORT IOC MEDICAL COMMISSION SUB-COMMISSION ON PUBLICATIONS IN THE SPORT SCIENCES Howard G. Knuttgen PhD (Co-ordinator) Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harm Kuipers MD, PhD Maastricht, The Netherlands Per A.F.H. Renström MD, PhD Stockholm, Sweden STRENGTH AND POWER IN SPORT VOLUME III OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SPORTS MEDICINE AN IOC MEDICAL COMMISSION PUBLICATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SPORTS MEDICINE EDITED BY PAAVO V. KOMI SECOND EDITION Blackwell Science © 2003 International Olympic Committee Published by Blackwell Science Ltd a Blackwell Publishing Company Editorial Offices: Blackwell Science Ltd, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EL, UK Blackwell Science, Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA Blackwell Science Asia Pty Ltd, 550 Swanston Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia Blackwell Wissenschafts Verlag, Kurfürstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany The right of the Author to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 1991 Reissue in paperback 1993 Reprinted 1994, 1996 German translation 1994 Second edition 2003 ISBN 0-632-05911-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Strength and power in sport / edited by Paavo V. Komi.— 2nd ed. p. cm. — (The Encyclopaedia of sports medicine ; v. 3) ‘An IOC Medical Commission publication in collaboration with the International Federation of Sports Medicine’ ISBN 0-632-05911-7 1. Sports—Physiological aspects. 2. Muscle strength. 3. Physical education and training. I. Komi, Paavo V. II. IOC Medical Commission. III. International Federation of Sports Medicine. IV. Series. RC1235 .S76 2002 612′.044—dc21 2002005028 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library Set in 9/12pt Palatino by Graphicraft Ltd, Hong Kong Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall Commissioning Editor: Andy Robinson Production Editor: Alice Emmott Production Controller: Kate Wilson For further information on Blackwell Science, visit our website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com Contents List of Contributors, vii Forewords by the IOC, ix 6 Exercise-Related Adaptations in Connective Tissue, 96 ronald f. zernicke and barbara loitz-ramage Preface, xi Units of Measurement and Terminology, xiii Part 1: Definitions 1 Basic Considerations for Exercise, 3 howard g. knuttgen and paavo v. komi Part 2: Biological Basis for Strength and Power 2 Neuronal Control of Functional Movement, 11 volker dietz 3 Motor Unit and Motoneurone Excitability during Explosive Movement, 27 toshio moritani 4 Muscular Basis of Strength, 50 r. b il l e t e r a nd h . h o p p e l e r 5 Hormonal Mechanisms Related to the Expression of Muscular Strength and Power, 73 william j. kraemer and scott a. mazzetti <