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It sounds like you want to start incorporating muscle-ups and weighted pull-ups whenever possible. I don't think kipping pull-ups are really appropriate for a number of reasons, but if they float your boat (and you have a healthy, strong, flexible shoulder girdle), rock 'em. Upper-Body Pulling Power Power is not a common goal for upper body pulls, though ...

What is going to improve your vertical by quite a bit is working on your technique in addition to the muscular strength aspects. A standing vertical is going to be much different than trying to leap to catch a disc from nearly a full run. There are a few different components to this type of a vertical jump. Blocking - This is a term most often used in ...

Interesting question. Personally, I don't think that neural training would specifically help with hypertrophy training, except in a general sense, which I'll explain. You can train neural pathways to the point where they approach the speed of a reflex. I'd have to dig up the studies, but they tested reflex transmission time against transmission times for ...

It's a difficult thing to answer that, since there are a couple of factors that are constant (Such as drag of the water), and some that aren't (Efficiency of the swimmer). The reason that breaststroke is slow is because the majority of the body is underwater, and thus facing drag. You can't get on the top of the water and plane like you can in freestyle and ...

Youh may want to look at Swimming Faster by Ernest W. Maglischo written back between 1980 and 1983. It has an entire chapter and if I remember right three or four pages of reference related to energy metabolism as it relates to swimming. There is a much better book less scientific more geared to increasing swim efficiency, it is called Total Immersion, I ...

To answer this question I'll have to make some simplifications and assumptions, because the real kinematics are rather sophisticated. We'll calculate the Potential Energy, which is the amount of energy required to move a mass up a certain height against the gravitational pull: E-potential (in Joule) = mass (kg) * gravitational acceleration (m/s2) * ...