Citation

Márquez G, Aguado X, Alegre LM, Lago A, Acero RM, Fernández-Del-Olmo M. Exp. Brain Res. 2010; 204(4): 575-584.

Affiliation

Facultade de Ciencias do Deporte e a Educación Física (INEF Galicia), Departamento de Educación Física e Deportiva, Universidade da Coruña, Avd. Ernesto Che Guevara 121, Pazos-Liáns, 15179, Oleiros, A Coruña, España, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00221-010-2324-1

PMID

20556367

Abstract

After repeated jumps over an elastic surface (e.g. a trampoline), subjects usually report a strange sensation when they jump again overground (e.g. they feel unable to jump because their body feels heavy). However, the motor and sensory effects of exposure to an elastic surface are unknown. In the present study, we examined the motor and perceptual effects of repeated jumps over two different surfaces (stiff and elastic), measuring how this affected maximal countermovement vertical jump (CMJ). Fourteen subjects participated in two counterbalanced sessions, 1 week apart. Each experimental session consisted of a series of maximal CMJs over a force plate before and after 1 min of light jumping on an elastic or stiff surface. We measured actual motor performance (height jump and leg stiffness during CMJ) and how that related to perceptual experience (jump height estimation and subjective sensation). After repeated jumps on an elastic surface, the first CMJ showed a significant increase in leg stiffness (P

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