Articles & Technologies

Research with our Force Plate – NIFS

Articles

We would like to introduce research papers that used our Force Plate System (50m force platform system) installed at the Sports Performance Research Center, National Institute of Fitness and Sports in KANOYA, Japan.
Title Journals
Association of step width with accelerated sprinting performance and ground reaction force. International Journal of Sports Medicine 38: 534–540, 2017.
Age-related differences in spatiotemporal variables and ground reaction forces during sprinting in boys. Pediatric Exercise Science 30(3):335–344, 2018
Association of sprint performance with ground reaction forces during acceleration and maximal speed phases in a single sprint. Journal of Applied Biomechanics 34: 104–110, 2018
Sensor insole for measuring temporal variables and vertical force during sprinting. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology 232(4): 369–374, 2018
Spatiotemporal and kinetic determinants of sprint acceleration performance in soccer players. Sports 6: 169 (pp1-7), 2018
Step-to-step spatiotemporal variables and ground reaction forces of intra-individual fastest sprinting in a single session. Journal of Sports Sciences 36(12): 1392–1401, 2018
Vertical impulse as a determinant of combination of step length and frequency during sprinting. International Journal of Sports Medicine 39(4): 282–290, 2018
Kinetic demands of sprinting shift across the acceleration phase: novel analysis of entire force waveforms. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 28: 1784–1792, 2018
How sprinters accelerate beyond the velocity plateau of soccer players: waveform analysis of ground reaction forces. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 28: 2527–2535, 2018
Understanding the track and field sprint start through a functional analysis of the external force features which contribute to higher levels of block phase performance. Journal of Sports Sciences 37: 560–567, 2018
Age-related differences in kinematics and kinetics of sprinting in young female. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 29: 800–807, 2019
Influence of the intention to lean the body forward on kinematics and kinetics of sprinting for active adults. Sports 7: 133 (pp1–8), 2019
Kinematic and kinetic differences in block and split-stance standing starts during 30 m sprint-running. European Journal of Sport Science 19: 1024–1031, 2019
External mechanical work done during the acceleration stage of maximal sprint running and its association with running performance. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb189258: 1–8, 2019
A simple method for computing sprint acceleration kinetics from running velocity data: replication study with improved design. Journal of Biomechanics 94: 82–87, 2019
The location of the center of pressure on the starting block is related to sprint start performance. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 1: 20: 1–6, 2019
Inertial measurement unit based hip flexion test as an indicator of sprint performance. Journal of Sports Sciences 38(1): 53–61, 2020
Thigh positioned wearable resistance affects step frequency not step length during 50 m sprint-running European Journal of Sport Science, in press
Force-velocity profile changes with forearm wearable resistance during standing start sprinting. European Journal of Sport Science, in press
Are peak ground reaction forces related to better sprint acceleration performance? Sports Biomechanics, in press
Calculation of the centre of pressure on the athletic starting block. Sports Biomechanics, in press
Ground reaction force across the transition during sprint acceleration. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, in press