Muscular strength is a biomotor ability that is foundational to numerous athletic performance variables such as sprinting, jumping, changing direction and rapidly decelerating. This is pretty well accepted across most sports disciplines, especially considering that an entire profession has emerged that is responsible for getting athletes stronger (i.e., strength and conditioning coaches). During the earlier …
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