PMID- 32336212 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230404 LR - 20230404 IS - 1752-6116 (Electronic) IS - 1476-3141 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 5 DP - 2023 May TI - Mechanical power production assessment during weightlifting exercises. A systematic review. PG - 633-659 LID - 10.1080/14763141.2020.1747529 [doi] AB - The assessment of the mechanical power production is of great importance for researchers and practitioners. The purpose of this review was to compare the differences in ground reaction force (GRF), kinematic, and combined (bar velocity x GRF) methods to assess mechanical power production during weightlifting exercises. A search of electronic databases was conducted to identify all publications up to 31 May 2019. The peak power output (PPO) was selected as the key variable. The exercises included in this review were clean variations, which includes the hang power clean (HPC), power clean (PC) and clean. A total of 26 articles met the inclusion criteria with 53.9% using the GRF, 38.5% combined, and 30.8% the kinematic method. Articles were evaluated and descriptively analysed to enable comparison between methods. The three methods have inherent methodological differences in the data analysis and measurement systems, which suggests that these methods should not be used interchangeably to assess PPO in Watts during weightlifting exercises. In addition, this review provides evidence and rationale for the use of the GRF to assess power production applied to the system mass while the kinematic method may be more appropriate when looking to assess only the power applied to the barbell. FAU - Soriano, Marcos A AU - Soriano MA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8698-6303 AD - Physical Activity and Sport Department, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. AD - Camilo Jose Cela University. Laboratory of Exercise Physiology, Madrid, Spain. AD - Directorate of Sport, Exercise and Physiotherapy, University of Salford, Salford UK. FAU - Kipp, Kristof AU - Kipp K AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3909-5257 AD - Department of Exercise Science and Physical Therapy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA. FAU - Lake, Jason P AU - Lake JP AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4381-0938 AD - Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chichester, Chichester, UK. FAU - Suchomel, Timothy J AU - Suchomel TJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1763-5518 AD - Department of Human Movement Sciences, Carroll University, Waukesha, USA. FAU - Marin, Pedro J AU - Marin PJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7536-6005 AD - CYMO Research Institute, Valladolid, Spain. FAU - Sainz De Baranda, Maria P AU - Sainz De Baranda MP AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1379-5151 AD - Physical Activity and Sport Department, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. FAU - Comfort, Paul AU - Comfort P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1131-8626 AD - Directorate of Sport, Exercise and Physiotherapy, University of Salford, Salford UK. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Systematic Review DEP - 20200427 PL - England TA - Sports Biomech JT - Sports biomechanics JID - 101151352 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Biomechanical Phenomena MH - *Muscle, Skeletal MH - *Weight Lifting MH - Exercise MH - Muscle Strength OTO - NOTNLM OT - Peak power output OT - force platform OT - kinematics OT - kinetics OT - power clean EDAT- 2020/04/28 06:00 MHDA- 2023/04/04 06:42 CRDT- 2020/04/28 06:00 PHST- 2023/04/04 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2020/04/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/04/28 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/14763141.2020.1747529 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sports Biomech. 2023 May;22(5):633-659. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2020.1747529. Epub 2020 Apr 27.