Biomechanics of Training and Testing: Innovative Concepts and Simple Field Methods

This book presents an account of innovative methods and, for most of them, gives direct
and practical insights into how practitioners can benefit from their use in their everyday
practice. It also explains how to interpret the data measured, and the underlying
neuromechanical and biomechanical factors related to sports performance. Written and
edited by the same researchers who proposed and validated these methods, this book not
only presents innovative methods for an efficient training and testing process (most of
which are based on very simple technology and data processing methods), but also
discusses the associated background information. Although it is a young scientific
discipline, sport biomechanics has taken on an important role in routine sports training,
medicine and rehabilitation. It allows both a better understanding of human locomotion
and performance and better design of training and injury prevention. In those processes,
the testing of athletes is crucial, and the quality and quantity of the variables analysed
directly influences the efficiency of physicians’, coaches’, physiotherapists’ and other
practitioners’ interventions.