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Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency
Over the expanse of evolutionary history, humans, and predecessor Homo species, ran to survive. This legacy is reflected in many deeply and irrevocably embedded neurological and biological design features, features which shape how we run, yet were themselves shaped by running. Smoothness is a widely...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6842378/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31707492 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0215-y |
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author | Kiely, John Pickering, Craig Collins, David J. |
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description | Over the expanse of evolutionary history, humans, and predecessor Homo species, ran to survive. This legacy is reflected in many deeply and irrevocably embedded neurological and biological design features, features which shape how we run, yet were themselves shaped by running. Smoothness is a widely recognised feature of healthy, proficient movement. Nevertheless, although the term ‘smoothness’ is commonly used to describe skilled athletic movement within practical sporting contexts, it is rarely specifically defined, is rarely quantified and remains barely explored experimentally. Elsewhere, however, within various health-related and neuro-physiological domains, many manifestations of movement smoothness have been extensively investigated. Within this literature, smoothness is considered a reflection of a healthy central nervous system (CNS) and is implicitly associated with practiced coordinated proficiency; ‘non-smooth’ movement, in contrast, is considered a consequence of pathological, un-practiced or otherwise inhibited motor control. Despite the ubiquity of running across human cultures, however, and the apparent importance of smoothness as a fundamental feature of healthy movement control, to date, no theoretical framework linking the phenomenon of movement smoothness to running proficiency has been proposed. Such a framework could, however, provide a novel lens through which to contextualise the deep underlying nature of coordinated running control. Here, we consider the relevant evidence and suggest how running smoothness may integrate with other related concepts such as complexity, entropy and variability. Finally, we suggest that these insights may provide new means of coherently conceptualising running coordination, may guide future research directions, and may productively inform practical coaching philosophies. |
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spelling | pubmed-68423782019-11-22 Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency Kiely, John Pickering, Craig Collins, David J. Sports Med Open Current Opinion Over the expanse of evolutionary history, humans, and predecessor Homo species, ran to survive. This legacy is reflected in many deeply and irrevocably embedded neurological and biological design features, features which shape how we run, yet were themselves shaped by running. Smoothness is a widely recognised feature of healthy, proficient movement. Nevertheless, although the term ‘smoothness’ is commonly used to describe skilled athletic movement within practical sporting contexts, it is rarely specifically defined, is rarely quantified and remains barely explored experimentally. Elsewhere, however, within various health-related and neuro-physiological domains, many manifestations of movement smoothness have been extensively investigated. Within this literature, smoothness is considered a reflection of a healthy central nervous system (CNS) and is implicitly associated with practiced coordinated proficiency; ‘non-smooth’ movement, in contrast, is considered a consequence of pathological, un-practiced or otherwise inhibited motor control. Despite the ubiquity of running across human cultures, however, and the apparent importance of smoothness as a fundamental feature of healthy movement control, to date, no theoretical framework linking the phenomenon of movement smoothness to running proficiency has been proposed. Such a framework could, however, provide a novel lens through which to contextualise the deep underlying nature of coordinated running control. Here, we consider the relevant evidence and suggest how running smoothness may integrate with other related concepts such as complexity, entropy and variability. Finally, we suggest that these insights may provide new means of coherently conceptualising running coordination, may guide future research directions, and may productively inform practical coaching philosophies. Springer International Publishing 2019-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6842378/ /pubmed/31707492 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0215-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Current Opinion Kiely, John Pickering, Craig Collins, David J. Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency |
title | Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency |
title_full | Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency |
title_fullStr | Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency |
title_full_unstemmed | Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency |
title_short | Smoothness: an Unexplored Window into Coordinated Running Proficiency |
title_sort | smoothness: an unexplored window into coordinated running proficiency |
topic | Current Opinion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6842378/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31707492 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0215-y |
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