Relationships Between Muscular Strength and Batting Performances in Collegiate Baseball Athletes

Body Composition and Strength Symmetry of Kettlebell Sport Athletes

“…In fact, according to a recent review [ 47 ], elite athletes practicing different disciplines generally show higher hand grip strength than their sub-elite counterparts. Accordingly, athletes practicing KBs showed strength values similar to those observed by Fry et al [ 52 ] in elite male weightlifter athletes. On the other side, compared to literature data on several sports (not including KBs), hand grip values of both male and female KBs athletes are in the average or lower range of variation [ 47 ].…”

Does stroke performance in amateur tennis players depend on functional power generating capacity?

“…Several studies have tried to study the relationship between lower and upper body strength and performance in tennis, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] similar to what has been done in other hitting and throwing sports such as baseball, [8][9][10][11][12] golf, 13 or handball. 14,15 Most of these studies use some form of physical testing involving isolated muscle contraction that is non-functional.…”

The relationship between handgrip strength and performance scores in North American Collegiate Division I women’s artistic gymnasts

“…In regards to the first reason, it has been argued that that the coordination, timing, and sequencing of the hand's forces and pressures to an object/implement are more important than the magnitude of the HGS applied (Cronin et al, 2017). Further, a single measurement of the magnitude of HGS does not measure the coordination, timing, and sequencing of the hand or any other body parts movement, and therefore this is likely the reason in sports where sport-specific movement success is predicated on technical precision and accuracy, HGS is a not a good predictor of sports performance (Amritashish & Shiny, 2015;Cronin et al, 2017;Franchini et al, 2005;Fry et al, 2011;Mangine et al, 2013;McGill et al, 2012;Sharma et al, 2012;Layton & DeBeliso, 2017;Tan et al, 2001;Wassmer & Mookerjee, 2002). Indeed, in the current investigation, the 4 events in collegiate women's gymnastics are predicated on high levels of technical precision and accuracy for success and therefore a measurement of the magnitude of HGS was not enough to predict performance outcomes.…”

“…In contrast, sport movements that require low forces and/or torques at low velocities and/or require a high degree of technical (e.g., movement coordination, sequencing, and timing) precision and accuracy are poorly predicted by measuring HGS (Cronin et al, 2017). Sports movements that are not predicted by measuring HGS include, but are not limited to, baseball batting average (Fry et al, 2011;Mangine et al, 2013), basketball points, assists, and blocks per game (McGill et al, 2012), bowling scores (Tan et al, 2001), cricket spin-off/bowling score (Amritashish & Shiny, 2015), ice hockey shot accuracy (Alexander et al, 1963), number of throws and attacks in a judo match (Franchini et al, 2005), racquetball success (Layton & DeBeliso, 2017), and field hockey slalom sprint and dribble tests (Sharma et al, 2012;Wassmer & Mookerjee, 2002), to name a few. HGS can also predict training experience/training and can help a practitioner delineate subelite from elite athletes as well as predict athlete's that will have successful performances versus those who will not be successful in their respective sports (Cronin et al, 2017).…”