Anaerobic, Metabolic, Mechanical or What?! How Maximal Repetitive Speeds are NOT What You Think They Are - with Prof Peter Weyand
Training Science Podcast
Dick's Idea Was Right
In running Turkey, Tom Roberts and Rich Marsh did the instrumentation to measure the length changes in Turkey calf with simultaneous force measurements from strain gauge glued to their Achilles tendon. As soon as we ran the turkeys up the hill, those calf muscles started shortening a lot during the force phase because you have to do work to get the body of the hill. If there's no work done by the center mass, the muscles don't do any work either or very little. And so it all lines up very nicely.
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