jumping performance
Jumping performance of froghopper insects
... prodigious jumping performance? Is it simply a way of improving locomotion so that a froghopper can move quickly from one food plant to another without being spotted? Is it to avoid predation or being ...
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How important are skeletal muscle mechanics in setting limits on jumping performance?
... 1967), jumping performance is greatly enhanced via substantial storage of elastic strain ...in performance is that the colder locusts take longer to perform the jump as the power of the jump is ...
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Standing long jump and handheld halters: Is jumping performance improved?
... In the literature there are few studies that have compared the role of handheld weights in jumping distance (Ashby, 2005; Minetti & Ardigó, 2002). In particular, Minetti and Ardigó (2002) analyzed the effect ...
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Genetic trend for jumping performance in Czech warm-blooded horses
... the jumping performance of horses in the period of 1991 - 2002 were ...10911 jumping competitions. The performance was charac- terised on the basis of the obtained bad points (penalties) of ...
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The Relationship between Body Composition and Jumping Performance of Volleyball Players
... Body composition and the skill of jumping are very important for high physical performance in volleyball. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between body composition and jumping ...
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Returners exhibit greater jumping performance improvements during a peaking phase compared to new players on a volleyball team
... best jumping performance, and their two best opponents the week prior to their worst jumping ...nadir performance may include psychological readiness, nutritional status, and other external ...
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Jumping performance of flea hoppers and other mirid bugs (Hemiptera, Miridae)
... the performance of mirids analysed in this study compare with other insects that use the same mechanism of direct muscle contractions and with those insects that use a catapult mechanism? Three stark distinctions ...
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Geographic variation in thermal sensitivity of jumping performance in the frog Limnodynastes peronii
... ectotherm performance amongst closely related species from distinct thermal environments (including phylogenetic analyses) indicate that thermal sensitivity readily evolves in response to different thermal ...
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Effects of plyometric training on grass surface and concrete surface on jumping performance among volleyball athletes
... in jumping performance between the grass surface group and concrete surface group (p > ...that jumping on grass requires more intense concentric push-off phase, which might compensate for the ...
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Jumping performance of planthoppers (Hemiptera, Issidae)
... best jumping performance of any insect described so far, accelerating their bodies in less than 1 ms to a take-off velocity of ...outstanding performance is achieved by using a catapult mechanism in ...
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The Development of the Locust Jumping Mechanism: I Allometric Growth and its Effect on Jumping Performance
... For the measurement of flexor to extensor mechanical advantage, metathoracic legs right or left from adult and fourth instar male locusts, at the age of peak jumping performance, were us[r] ...
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Jumping performance of hylid frogs measured with high speed cine film
... of jumping distance on the same or similar ...of jumping (Hirsch, 1931; Gans, 1961; Calow and Alexander, 1973; Altevogt et ...long jumping distances recorded in some other species, but a direct ...
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Jumping Performance of Frogs (Rana Pipiens) as a Function of Muscle Temperature
... In a plot of the distance travelled in the aerial phase XA, as a function of muscle power, the intercept was much reduced, showing that a large part of the intercept observed in the jump[r] ...
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The Influence of Maturity Status on Jumping Performance of Inner London Secondary School Students
... bilateral, jumping over or on to objects, with the most common being the counter-movement vertical and horizontal jumps (Pearson, Naughton & Torode, 2006; Vanezis & Lees, 2005; Wang, Lin & Huang, ...
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The Effect of Air Resistance on the Jumping Performance of Insects
... Using these figures and the frontal area to mass ratios and drag coefficients found for various sizes of jumping insects Table 1 the maximum height they can attain may be calculated from[r] ...
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Analysis of lines and breeds of sires in the breeding of the Czech warmblood horses based on grading their offspring in rearing facilities for testing young horses (RFT)
... the performance and conformation of the Czech warmblood at the same time belonging to the lines 3100 Adeptus xx, 67 Dark Ronald and 4900 Rantzau xx – Cor De La ...on jumping performance; however ...
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Jumping mechanisms in jumping plant lice (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Psyllidae)
... The jumping performance of psyllids places them firmly amongst the most accomplished of jumping ...compare jumping distances because spinning psyllids are hard to distinguish from ones ...
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Volume 5, Issue 3, 2019
... vertical jumping test ...jump performance and found that static stretching exercises lower the performance of vertical ...vertical jumping and found that static stretching activities affect ...
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Evaluation of the effect of imported foreign breeds on the sports performance of warm-blood horses in the Czech Republic
... The performance of horses of the groups in ...for jumping performance. The group showing the highest performance was the HOLST1 group ...considerable jumping abilities of the Studbook ...
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Jumping mechanisms in lacewings (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae)
... Why does this third group of insects use four propulsive legs? Two reasons can be advanced. First, the ground reaction forces will be distributed over a larger area provided by the four tarsi and over a longer time ...
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