Book - Chapter 18

Question 1

Amortization Phase

Answer 1

End of eccentric to beginning of concentric; crucial for power development

Question 2

Complex Training

Answer 2

High intensity resistance training followed by plyometrics.

Question 3

Concentric Phase

Answer 3

Phase 3; energy stored by SEC is used to increase force or dissipated as heat.

Question 4

Eccentric Phase

Answer 4

Phase 1 of SSC; muscle spindles are stimulated and SEC stores energy.

Question 5

Series Elastic Component (SEC)

Answer 5

The workhorse of plyometric exercise; tendons.

Question 6

Proprioceptive organs sensitive to the rate and magnitude of a stretch.

Answer 6

Muscle Spindles

Question 7

Potentiation

Answer 7

The change in a muscles force-velocity characteristics caused by a stretch.

Question 8

Stretch Reflex

Answer 8

An involuntary response to an external stimulus.

Question 9

Uses the energy stored in the SEC and the stretch-reflex to facilitate a maximal increase in muscle recruitment over a minimal amount of time.

Answer 9

Stretch-Shortening Cycle

Question 10

SSC uses ____ & Stretch-Reflex to increase ______ over a minimal amount of _____.

Answer 10

energy from SEC; muscle recruitment; time