Vertical Jumping as a Monitoring Tool in Endurance Runners: A Brief Review
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García Pinillos, FelipeEditorial
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Materia
Post activation potentiation Dose-response Individualization Fatigue
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2021-10-31Referencia bibliográfica
García-Pinillos, F... [et al.] (2021). Vertical Jumping as a Monitoring Tool in Endurance Runners: A Brief Review. Journal of Human Kinetics,80(1) 297-308. [https://doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2021-0101]
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Pre-competitive Projects for Early Stage Researchers Programme from the University of Granada PPJIA2020.03Resumen
Jumping performance (e.g., countermovement jump [CMJ]), as a measure of neuromuscular performance, has
been suggested as an easy-to-use tool which simultaneously provides neuromuscular and metabolic information and,
thereby, allows coaches to confidently monitor the status of their athletes during a workout. This hypothesis has been
satisfactorily tested with sprint athletes. However, the rationale for the use of CMJ height loss as an index to monitor
the workload during an endurance running session is not sufficiently evidence-based. First, it is assumed that a CMJ
height loss occurs during typical interval training for endurance runners. Second, it is also assumed that a significant
relationship between metabolic stress and the neuromuscular strain induced during these endurance workouts exists.
These two assumptions will be questioned in this review by critically analyzing the kinetics of CMJ performance during
and after running workouts, and the relationship between neuromuscular and physiological stress induced during
different protocols in endurance runners. The current evidence shows that fatigue induced by common running
workouts for endurance runners does not counterbalance the potentiation effect in the CMJ height. Additionally, the
findings reported among different studies are consistent regarding the lack of association between CMJ height loss and
physiological stress during interval sessions in endurance runners. In practical terms, the authors suggest that this
marker of neuromuscular fatigue may not be used to regulate the external training load during running workouts in
endurance runners. Nevertheless, the analysis of CMJ height during running workouts may serve to monitor chronic
adaptations to training in endurance runners.