Can your sport or activity benefit from PowerCranks™?
1. Yes, if you need a combination of leg power, leg speed, and pure acceleration to get into position to make the play.
2. Yes, if you need to be in top shape.
3. Yes, if your activity involves backwards running motion. This creates huge demands on the hamstrings.
4. Yes, if you often make maximal, intense efforts involving power and physical contact. You may also need to recover quickly from those efforts.
5. Yes, if your activity involves intense coordinated efforts. Uncoordinated movement makes the player more likely to sustain injury. Both ACL and Hamstring pulls have been repeatedly shown to be associated with leg muscle imbalance.
These are some of the reasons you or your team may benefit from using PowerCranks™.
PowerCranks™:
Train the hamstrings, hip flexors, and the many stabilizer muscles that control the legs and help drive them forward after the foot leaves the ground during running. This improves top speed. PowerCranks™ also improve the power/aerobic ability of the hip flexors, increasing the ability to play accelerate over and over.
If you increase the athlete’s acceleration driving the legs forward, you increase running speed. Increasing speed increases the chance of making it to the ball first.
PowerCranks™ can modify the character of the primary hip flexors from powerful muscles with little aerobic capacity to powerful muscles with substantial aerobic capacity (similar to the quadriceps) improving more than speed, it improves your ability to go fast, over and over.
An aerobic muscle has improved blood flow and more mitochondria than found in anaerobic muscles. Improved recovery rates are possible by improving blood flow and muscle mitochondria concentration in the hip flexors. This improved capacity allows more frequent or sustained anaerobic bursts without degradation in effort as the contest drags on.
PowerCranks™ can be a rehabilitation tool to come back from the leg & knee injuries that challenge even the best players.
Here is a primer for Strength Athletes written by the owner & head trainer of Diablo barbell
