QUALITATIVE

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS
TO IMPROVE TRAINING
 BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS FOR TRAINING
IMPROVEMENT
• Can help identify SPECIFIC Technical or Physical requirements necessary to perform a skill

• Directed at improving Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, CV Endurance, Flexibility

& Body Composition

• Directed at the SPECIFICITY of Physical Training

 QUALITATIVE ANATOMICAL
ANALYSIS METHOD
• Purpose:
• to determine predominant muscular activity during specific
phases of performance
• To identify instances when large stresses may occur due to
large muscular forces or extreme joint Range Of Motion
(ROM)

• Methods:
• Muscle palpation, Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness
(DOMS), Video-recording, EMG, Other quantitative
analyses
 STEPS IN QUALITATIVE
ANATOMICAL ANALYSIS METHOD
 1) DIVIDE INTO TEMPORAL PHASES

• Usually includes the following:

• 1) PREPARATORY PHASE
• 2) POWER-GENERATION PHASE
• 4) RESOLUTION PHASE
WALKING
PITCHING
GOLF SWING
 2) IDENTIFY JOINT MOTIONS

• Joints and segments involved

• Movement occurring at each joint at each phase
SHOULDER JOINT
SCAPULA
ELBOW JOINT
WRIST JOINT
KNEE JOINT
HIP JOINT
ANKLE JOINT
TRUNK/TORSO
 3) DETERMINE TYPES OF
MUSCULAR CONTRACTION

• CONCENTRIC
• + WORK, ↓ mechanical energy, ↑mechanical sum
• ECCENTRIC
• - work, ↑ mechanical energy, ↓ mechanical sum
• ISOMETRIC
• no change in mechanical energy, no change in
mechanical sum
• Lifted- ↑ potential energy
• Lowered-↓potential energy

• Stretched/deformed- ↑ strain energy

• Unstretched/ reformed- ↓ strain energy
 4) RAPID JOINT ANGULAR
ACCELERATIONS & IMPACTS

• Identify the muscle groups that must produce

the largest force as well as the positions of
the limbs when those forces are produces
 5) EXTREME RANGE OF MOTION

• Identify the muscles & soft tissues that may be

stretched and possibly injured.
 6)CHART THE ANALYSIS
EXAMPLE: BENCH PRESS
1) TEMPORAL DOWN PHASE UP PHASE
PHASES
2) JOINT MOTIONS Flexion Extension
Elbow joint Horizontal abduction, Horizontal adduction
Shoulder joint extension
3) MUSCULAR Elbow extensors Elbow extensors
CONTRACTION (eccentric) (concentric)
Active muscle groups Horizontal flexors Horizontal flexors
(eccentric) (concentric)
4) RAPID JOINT Active muscles stressed at the end of Down Phase &
ANGULAR Beginning of Up Phase
ACCELERATIONS
5) Extreme ROM (End) Elbow fully flexed (Beginning) shoulder
close to limit of
horizontal flexion
 EXAMPLE 2: VERTICAL JUMP
1) TEMPORAL PHASES Preparatory Propulsive

2) JOINT MOTIONS
Ankle Dorsiflexed Plantarflexed
Knee Flexed Extended
Hip Flexed Extended
hyperextended extended
shoulder
3) MUSCULAR
CONTRACTION Ankle extensors- eccentric Plantar flexors-concentric
Knee extensors- eccentric Knee extensors- concentric
Hip extensors- eccentric Hip extensors- concentric
Shoulder extensors- Shoulder extensors-
concentric concentric

4) RAPID JOINT End of preparatory phase Beginning of Propulsive

ANGULAR phase
ACCELERATIONS
5) Extreme ROM Hyperextension Full extension
 ASSIGNMENT:
CHART THE FOLLOWING

•1) Running
•2) Squatting
•3) Overhand throwing
 USE OF EMG IN BIOMECHANICAL
ANALYSIS TO IMPROVE TRAINING

• Use of EMG in training Improvement

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