Questions tagged [power]
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How do I break a plateau for weighted pull up (2023)
Today 174cm, 64kg 25 years old, gender male
Last year 174cm, 74kg 24 years old, gender male
I also did some medical testing last year, my testosterone slightly
below average but not considerably.
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What do Watts really mean on an exercise bike?
The bikes at my gym show your current power output in Watts and I'm trying to figure out what this means in some tangible form.
I know 1 Watt = 1 Joule / second.
I know 1 Joule = 0.239 calories.
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What is the relationship between exercise effort, watts, speed, and calories burned?
This is a tough question to categorize because it involves fitness, physics, math, physiology, and probably more disciplines. But, it's being asked in the context of Fitness so I believe this is the ...
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How do you increase muscle power via greater contraction speed?
From what I understand, muscle power derives from the product of the force of the muscle times the contraction velocity.
It is quite obvious regarding the general idea for how one increases the force ...
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Power duration curve for endurance sports
I have a question regarding the power-duration curve for sports. This curve is power on the y-axis and time on the x-axis. For probably all endurance athletes they will have a exponential declining ...
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How does my Back Squat velocity profile relate to the traditional velocity zones?
I am trying to figure out how I can make my Back Squat velocity profile more actionable, and how it relates to the traditional Velocity Zone found on the internet.
I see that my max power occurs at ...
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Is it possible to work on strength and power on the same day?
I read Triphasic Training by Cal Dietz and he mentioned that you should only be training one parameter at a time. First work on increasing absolute strength for 6 weeks (w/ weight 80% of 1RM).
After ...
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How to convert strength to power in basketball?
We have been lifting for strength with the 1x20RM program but now we are getting closer to pre-season and would like to start converting the strength to power. How can i convert their strength to ...
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Third pull of power clean: powerful jump vs arms pull vs thighs pull
In this video, Mark Rippetoe expains the technique of the power clean. It is (at least in theory) all clear for me and the explanation is very good, but there is a point I can't understand.
To prevent ...
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Do static holds build power?
OK mathematically speaking power is both:
Work/velocity
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Work/time
So in theory: either you get a dumbbell from point A to point B incredibly fast or hold always the dumbbell in point B, the power ...
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Power Clean basic guide
this topic doesn't want to be a professional guide to power cleans, since it's so complicate for a newbie like me.
However, in my life there were plenty of situations in which I needed to lift a ...
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What are good exercises that increase power, without having heavy weights?
I teach basketball to high school kids and want to keep increasing their power output. However, the boys don't have access to heavy weights but to have access to bands and lighter (20lb) dumbbells. Is ...
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Weight size when training for power (not for maximum strength, resistance or body size)
If our main goal is to increase our power (for kicking or striking a ball, for example), what size of weight would we use?
Could light weights used ballistically be better than, say, big weights + ...
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Exercise bike / ergometer - calories burned, or calories produced?
Exercise bikes / ergometers normally display figures including cadence, power and calories.
Cadence and power are pretty explicit, but I'm not really sure what the calories figure refers to. Is it ...
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Neural Adaptation Training vs. Hypertrophy Training?
I see training broken up as neural adaptation and hypertrophy. One type of training allows your nervous system to fire at a maximum level while the latter allows you to build size and muscle.
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Do slowly lifting heavy weights increase general power/speed/impact without weights?
If someone wants to increase his power/speed at performing a certain movement in sports (for example, tennis shots, golf strike, kicking a ball), would slowly lifting heavy weights (almost at the ...
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Rectus abdominis vs oblique muscles
Assuming one trains both but wants to emphasize one more than the other, with more frequency and higher intensity, will obliques or the rectus abdominis improve more the strength of heavy pulls.
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Partial reps for muscle growth
I've been thinking about it for some time now and came to the conclusion that chin ups and pull ups are ego-lifting partial repetitions, even when the chin is over the bar or when the chest is over ...
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What does "genetic potential" really mean? Does it really mean anything?
Often times people devise formulas and objective/subjective viewpoints on how far one can take their progress in fitness and weight lifting/muscle building/strength/etc. I have found that there's no ...
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Hip mechanics in kipping pull-up
I'm trying to master a kipping pull-up as a means of getting my kipping muscle up. I've probably watched 20 online tutorials, most of them from CrossFitters, since they're the ones who post the most ...
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How does superhuman strength work?
I totally know this is not the best question for here because it goes beyond just fitness-y stuff and into all of that science stuff more so, but let's consider I am asking this is a good-hearted, ...
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How fast should a rep be in strength, power, hypertrophy and endurance goal workout?
I would like to know what is the tempo for a rep in any kind of the four workouts mentioned above in order to gain the best result in the relevant workout.
I don't know if it is correct to give each ...
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Exercise that loads hamstring whilst reaching its peak ROM?
I've recently realised that I have very tight hamstrings - when lying flat on the ground, I can only lift each leg around 75 degrees off the floor when doing this:
Though I'm keeping my legs straight,...
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How to train for leg explosive power?
One of my physical test requirements are standing broad jumps.
What methods are there to train for standing broad jumps or leg explosive power in general?
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Is it true that more calories give more energy, plain and simple?
I am asking this because I read a post jokingly titled, "Why fat people will hurt you."
It mentioned there that, because heavier or obese people tend to eat more, they tend to store more energy. With ...
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Can I beat Arnold in arm wrestling? [closed]
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 66 years old now, and I know you can see all recent videos of him working out, his arm size still is up, etc.
I'm a young guy, 22 years old. I do not do bodybuilding, and ...
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How come females with as much testosterone, all other things being equal, are still considerably weaker than males?
How come women on the same dosages of steroids, with the same training experience, on the same programs, with the same bodyweight or even heavier by 30 lbs, as men on steroids are still considerably ...
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How come females with less testosterone can be stronger than males with more?
I have seen some pretty damn strong natural females who can lift more than me and lots of other males. The interesting part is that people are always associating testosterone with strength in some way ...
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To what extent is strength/fitness genetically passed on?
I am not talking about muscle mass, but just strength. I know some people who never touch weights, do any exercise, have terrible diets, have poor sleeping habits, live in unsettling conditions, ...
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Does hypertrophy need to be maintained?
I'm familiar with the general idea of adaptation and super compensation, and the loss of strength if your body doesn't feel you need it anymore because the increased load isn't present.
I've been ...
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Punchbag without boxing gloves, getting a headache
I was using the punchbag at the gym early on Saturday morning, just jab-straight combinations and trying to work on power for the second punch. What I experienced was a pain in my head when I hit the ...
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How to get stronger without increasing fitness?
I know this is total contradiction to this very domain name: fitness.stackexchange, but hear me out. Plenty of people come here asking for advice about foods, routines, muscle types, other neuro-bio ...
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Not gaining strength, even after following routine, diet, exercise, sleep, etc [closed]
I've been interested in the strength world for a long time. While I don't limit myself to any specific muscle groups, I never gain much strength. And when I do gain strength, I tend to lose it very ...
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Adding power to my pull-ups?
I like pull-ups, easily my favorite exercise and I do a lot of them whenever I get the chance. I'm quite familiar with form, do them very strict (elbow lock-out, chin way over bar etc) and vary my ...
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How do I track improvement in my box jump?
The gym I currently train at doesn't have equipment for Olympic lifting with barbells, so instead I'm using dumbbell Olympic lifts and box jumps (with either one leg or both) for my power/...
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relationship between power and body fat
When throwing a punch it's often recommended one throw ones weight into it. Does it make much of a difference with what constitutes that weight?
For example, say you have a guy with 130lbs lean mass ...
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How do I train my calf muscles?
If the goal is functional performance in a power sport (speed, acceleration, vertical jump), how should one train calves, if at all?
Here are the alternatives that I can think of:
Don't train calves ...
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Power while swimming?
Here is a scatterplot matrix of elapsed times for the overall, swim, bike, and run legs of the 2009 Ironman Championship in Kona.
Obviously, while the correlation is imperfect, it is still ...
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How do you equate a "stair run" to traditional running in terms of Power?
I want to be able to convert the power required to do one exercise, specifically running down then up four flights of stairs, into terms of a run of distance x in time y.
I've found several work and ...
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