Views regarding Definition of the Notion of upper Limbs Detent

Abstract

The trainer’s creativity during the preparation process plays a determinant role in the achievement of major sports performances. Their contribution to the conceptualizing and practical implementation of working strategies, new preparation methods, and means based on an adequate quantification of effort, has as its main goal the achievement of proposed objectives on short, medium, or long terms. Permanent modeling of sports preparation is one of the main modalities by which the increase in performance capacity is being accomplished. The scope of this scientific approach is to define the notion of superior (upper) limbs detent, the specific means in order to reach this objective as well as the assessment mode. The group of means used in current practice for developing the superior (upper) limbs' detent is based on the phrase: the individual’s capacity to detach from the ground or from an apparatus through the superior limbs. The precise delimitation of the means circumscribed to this definition is owed to the elimination of confusion created by the means used for pushing, throwing, or launching some objects through the superior (upper) limbs. For the assessment of this quality/metric capacity, I propose two control tests (only for advanced groups, performance, and high performance): three pushups with advancing and five pushups on the spot, with ground detachment. Knowledge and constant utilization by trainers of the means for developing the detent/explosive force of the superior limbs may constitute the basis of future sports performances.