Affiliations: Exercise Physiology Program, The University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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Corresponding author: J.F. Caruso, Exercise Physiology Program, The University of Louisville, 2100 S Floyd Street, Louisville, KY 40292, USA. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: BACKGROUND:High-speed resistive exercise increasingly serves as a modality to improve health and performance. In regards to high-speed resistive exercise, little research exists which elucidates factors that may serve as significant correlates, and therefore predict health and performance benefits. Furthermore what research exists on this topic usually examined male athletes. OBJECTIVE:To assess anthropometry’s role as a correlate to high-speed resistive exercise performance. METHODS: Before the workouts, subjects were measured for six anthropometric variables. At each two-set workout the average and peak force, as well as the total volume of work done, were recorded and used for analysis. To identify correlates to high-speed exercise performance, a series of multivariate analyses were done, in which an exercise performance variable served as a criterion and the six anthropometric measurements were predictor variables. RESULTS: Only one of our multivariate analyses achieved significance. With peak force from phasic workout as the criterion, a significant amount of variance correlated with anthropometry. Univariate analyses revealed height was the strongest correlate to phasic peak force variance. CONCLUSIONS: Our results are unlike those from studies done with men. Differences may be due, but not limited, to 1): the load used, 2): the timing and coordination of high-speed repetitions, and 3): height’s role in exercise performance.
