PMID- 26240646 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20150804 LR - 20200929 IS - 1640-5544 (Print) IS - 1899-7562 (Electronic) IS - 1640-5544 (Linking) VI - 46 DP - 2015 Jun 27 TI - Effect of Performance Speed on Trunk Movement Control During the Curl-Up Exercise. PG - 29-37 LID - 10.1515/hukin-2015-0031 [doi] AB - Trunk exercise speed has significant effects on neuro-mechanical demands; however, the influence of a variety of exercise speeds on motor control of the trunk displacement remains unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of performance speed on trunk motion control during the curl-up exercise by analyzing the kinematic variance about the sagittal trajectory. Seventeen subjects volunteered to perform curl-ups at different cadences controlled by a metronome. Standard deviation (SD) and range (RG) of shoulder girdle medial-lateral displacement (SGML) and detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) of SGML were calculated to examine linear variability and long range autocorrelation of medial-lateral upper trunk displacements, respectively. In addition, SD, RG and DFA of centre of pressure medial-lateral displacement (COPML) were performed to analyze the behavior of the motor system while controlling trunk displacement. Although SD and RG of COPML increased as speed increased, the curl-up cadence did not have significant effects on SD and RG of SGML. These results suggest that although high speed curl-ups challenged participants' ability to carry out medial-lateral adjustments, an increase of performance speed did not modify the linear variability about the sagittal trajectory. Regarding DFA, the scaling exponent alpha of SGML and COPML was higher for the fastest movements, mainly in long term fluctuations. Therefore, to maintain the target trajectory, participants used different strategies depending on performance speed. This is to say, there were less trajectory changes when participants performed the fastest exercises. FAU - Barbado, David AU - Barbado D AD - Sports Research Centre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Elche (Alicante), Spain. FAU - Elvira, Jose Luis L AU - Elvira JL AD - Sports Research Centre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Elche (Alicante), Spain. FAU - Moreno, Francisco J AU - Moreno FJ AD - Sports Research Centre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Elche (Alicante), Spain. FAU - Vera-Garcia, Francisco J AU - Vera-Garcia FJ AD - Sports Research Centre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Elche (Alicante), Spain. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20150710 PL - Poland TA - J Hum Kinet JT - Journal of human kinetics JID - 101513031 PMC - PMC4519219 OTO - NOTNLM OT - abdominal musculature OT - conditioning exercise OT - motor control OT - spine biomechanics OT - velocity EDAT- 2015/08/05 06:00 MHDA- 2015/08/05 06:01 PMCR- 2015/07/10 CRDT- 2015/08/05 06:00 PHST- 2015/08/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/08/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/08/05 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2015/07/10 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - jhk-46-29 [pii] AID - 10.1515/hukin-2015-0031 [doi] PST - epublish SO - J Hum Kinet. 2015 Jul 10;46:29-37. doi: 10.1515/hukin-2015-0031. eCollection 2015 Jun 27.