Essays covering a range of topics from weightlifting biomechanics; injury susceptibility in sport; weightlifting training; weightlifting sports science.
“…There are known knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns: the ones we don’t know we don’t know”. Donald Rumsfeld, 2004 The incongruous mix of professions involved in one form or another in the training and care of American athletes: coaches, conditioning coaches, academics, doctors, physical therapists, athletic trainers, personal trainers and […]
Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com “How can you have a sport now where you have so much more technology; so much more resources; less contact and more injuries.” Because everything is rubber bands, everything is resistance resistance, everything is cable. There are teams now in the nba that don’t even have a weight room.” Tim Grover, Kobe’s
Typhoid Mary & The Three Point Play Read More »
Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com References / (1) Dolman, B., Verrall, G., Reid, I., “Physical principles demonstrate that the biceps femoris muscle relative to the other hamstring muscles exerts the most force: implications for hamstring muscle strain injuries” Muscles Tendons Ligaments J., 2014 Jul – Sep; 4(3): 371 – 377 Published online November 17, 2014 / Novachek,
Hamstring injury in Sport Read More »
Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com Speed in weightlifting, specifically in the performance of the classic snatch and the classic clean and jerk is an enigmatic topic of the weightlifting literature. Many Soviet era weightlifting sport scientists address this aspect of weightlifting biomechanics in articles, textbooks and the like. No one disputes the significance of speed of movement
Speed in Weightlifting: an Optical Illusion Read More »
Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” George Orwell Various essays (Charniga 2015 – 2020) have dealt with injury susceptibility in female weightlifters; misinformation about the injury susceptibility of female athletes in American sports; peculiarities of a ‘feminine expression of strength’ in weightlifting
A Stability/Instability Convexity Read More »