PMID- 19816217
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100524
LR  - 20161018
IS  - 1533-4287 (Electronic)
IS  - 1064-8011 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 3
DP  - 2010 Mar
TI  - Relationship between off-ice testing variables and on-ice speed in women's 
      collegiate synchronized figure skaters: implications for training.
PG  - 831-9
LID - 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181a59a5c [doi]
AB  - The purpose of the current investigation was to identify any existing 
      relationships between off-ice performance measures and on-ice performance 
      quantified by speed and acceleration. Twenty-seven women (age 19 +/- 1 year; body 
      mass (59.5 +/- 6.8 kg; height 164.6 +/- 6.35 cm; body fat 23.2 +/- 3.9%) who were 
      collegiate synchronized figure skaters volunteered for the investigation. To 
      examine the relationship between off-ice performance and on-ice speed and 
      acceleration, collegiate synchronized skaters were evaluated on various 
      performance tests over a 1-week period. Off-ice tests completed were peak torque 
      for hip abduction and adduction, 40-yard sprint, vertical jump height, 30-second 
      slide board stride count, and a 1-RM (repetition maximum) squat. On-ice tests 
      included a timed single lap sprint, 4.5-minute (duration of long program) lap 
      count, and an approximately 16.5-m (18-yard blue line to blue line) timed 
      acceleration. Significance was set at P < or = 0.05. This study showed 3 primary 
      findings: (a) slide board stride count was the single best predictor for both 
      single lap on-ice speed and acceleration accounting for 53.5% (adjusted R2 value) 
      of the variance in the single lap test and 42.5% (adjusted R2 value) of the 
      variance in acceleration times; (b) vertical jump height test was the second best 
      predictor for both the single lap test and on-ice acceleration accounting for 
      36.6% and 39.9% (adjusted R2 values) of the variance in times recorded, 
      respectively; and (c) the best combined predictors for the single lap speed test 
      were slide board stride count and 40-yard dash (R2 = 0.675), whereas the best 
      combined predictors for on-ice acceleration were slide board stride count and 
      vertical jump height test (R2 = 0.571). Conditioning for synchronized skaters to 
      enhance performance of on-the-ice speed and acceleration should include slide 
      board training implementation of plyometric and linear speed training while 
      developing and maintaining 1-RM strength to support power capabilities.
FAU - Bower, Michelle E
AU  - Bower ME
AD  - Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of 
      Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
FAU - Kraemer, William J
AU  - Kraemer WJ
FAU - Potteiger, Jeffrey A
AU  - Potteiger JA
FAU - Volek, Jeff S
AU  - Volek JS
FAU - Hatfield, Disa A
AU  - Hatfield DA
FAU - Vingren, Jakob L
AU  - Vingren JL
FAU - Spiering, Barry A
AU  - Spiering BA
FAU - Fragala, Maren S
AU  - Fragala MS
FAU - Ho, Jen-Yu
AU  - Ho JY
FAU - Thomas, Gwendolyn A
AU  - Thomas GA
FAU - Earp, Jacob E
AU  - Earp JE
FAU - Hakkinen, Keijo
AU  - Hakkinen K
FAU - Maresh, Carl M
AU  - Maresh CM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Strength Cond Res
JT  - Journal of strength and conditioning research
JID - 9415084
SB  - IM
MH  - Athletic Performance/physiology
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Exercise/physiology
MH  - Exercise Test
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Skating/education/*physiology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2009/10/10 06:00
MHDA- 2010/05/25 06:00
CRDT- 2009/10/10 06:00
PHST- 2009/10/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/10/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/05/25 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181a59a5c [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Strength Cond Res. 2010 Mar;24(3):831-9. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181a59a5c.