Word: grinko
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...rubber bands. Such training has spread even to the more skill-oriented sports, including archery and target shooting. The reason is that scientists have learned that muscle strength produces not only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls on the oars with 200-lb. weights attached. "When we slack off," says Pearson, "Igor screams at us that Russian women can lift more weight than we can." Says Jonathan Smith...
...resistance training, athletes focus on the muscle groups now recognized as vital to their sport. Grinko's rowers are spending one day a week concentrating exclusively on arms, another day on legs and a third on the back. Swimmers are working on building up their arms because about 80% of their propulsion through the water comes from the arms' movement. Cyclists now give more attention to their hamstrings, a group of muscles in the back of the thigh. "The hamstrings stabilize the knee and transfer mechanical energy between the joints," explains biomechanist Robert Gregor of the University of California...