Category: Science
How to Choose Your Flywheel Training Device
As flywheel training is becoming more popular, people have also begun to realize that different flywheel devices come with different specifications. This guide will help you with your choice…
Flywheel vs Weights for Eccentric Overload in Strong Athletes
If you have seen any athlete do eccentric overloaded squats on the kBox you will realize that there aren’t any research papers covering that type of training. Question is,…
Assessing Your Eccentric Overload
Since the launch of the kMeter we have received a lot of positive feedback. It’s very satisfactory that so many of you see the benefit of direct feedback in…
Flywheel Training vs Weights: What Does Science Say?
Last week a new systematic review and meta-analysis on the effect of flywheel training vs traditional weight training made quite some impact on the sport science community. Fredrik Correa…
ETSU Studies of kBox Inertial Setting and Force Characteristics
The choice of inertia and intensity are the main parameters affecting your workout in flywheel training. At the Coaches College event in December, two new studies from ETSU looking…
“Almost Impossible to Achieve in Traditional Weight Room Methodology”
PhD and kBox pioneer Mike Young reveals some of his key flywheel training strategies and more for UC Berkeley strength and conditioning coach Joel Smith in his latest podcast….
Reflections on the kBox Power Test: ROM vs Peak Power
Following our post earlier this week presenting the new kBox Power Test protocol, some debate was stirred up on Twitter about the lack of correlation between self-selected squat depth…
Is Flywheel Training for Youths?
I was recently involved in a discussion about the suitability of flywheel training and eccentrics for youths, and I realised this might be interesting for anyone involved in coaching…
The Case for Sophisticated Power Measurement
In a fresh article on the Freelap USA blog, olympic coach Carl Valle makes a great argument for the need to monitor performance during training and also to do…
New Study: kBox Usage Can Make Swimmers Start 35% Faster
Swimmers that do lunge exercises on a flywheel squat device such as the kBox prior to a race get a 35% faster start. This is evident from a new…
Afraid of Muscle Soreness?
Muscle soreness is familiar to anyone who did some serious strength training. Walking funnily, feeling pain during eccentric contraction (like walking down stairs), and experiencing muscle weakness are all…
The effects of eccentric training vs concentric on muscle strength and mass
A meta-analysis from 2009 including 20 studies shows higher increases in total and eccentric muscle strength and higher increases in muscle mass and cross-sectional area with high-intensity eccentric training.
“Meta-analyses…