Research Presented at 2012 ISBS Conference

Yesterday, Dr. Kimi Sato presented on force outputs of various ETSU athletic teams at the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) Conference held in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Sato is an assistant professor and lead strength and conditioning coach for men's golf at ETSU. This is another example of the applied sport science work that we have presented at international conferences.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sato is among the nominees for the young investigator of the year award that will be announced later this week. The abstract that he presented is below, and will be published in the ISBS Eproceedings following the conclusion of the conference.

Force Output Comparison Between Six U.S. Collegiate Athletic Teams

Kimitake Sato, Caleb Bazyler, George Beckham, Howard Gray, Guy Hornsby, Ashley Kavanaugh, Christopher MacDonald, Satoshi Mizuguchi, Meg Stone, and Mike Stone

The aim of the study was to compare allometrically scaled peak force and the force at 250 ms between six U.S. collegiate sport teams using isometric mid-thigh pull. Ninety subjects performed maximum effort of isometric mid-thigh pull to measure force output. The data were averaged within the teams, and statistically compared between teams using one-way ANOVA (p = .01). Significant difference was found that men’s soccer and baseball produced higher allometrically scaled peak force, and men’s soccer, tennis, and baseball produced higher allometrically scaled force at 250 ms. The data indicates that not all sports possess similar strength characteristics because of the nature of the sports, and observed separation between gender. Teams such as volleyball and baseball showed higher coefficient of variation due to the various positions within their sports.