Effects of Weight Categories Variation on Relative Muscular Strength of Squat Powerlifting

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“…Direct borrowing of recommendations and methodological provisions from weightlifting is incorrect, since power triathlon is distinguished by its own specificity of competitive activity. For example, in contrast to weightlifting in this sport, movements are performed much slower, therefore such a factor as muscle composition becomes unimportant, and it is necessary to train both slow and fast muscle fibers [8]. As for foreign recommendations, in most cases they do not rely on rigorous scientific data and represent the opinions of various coaches and athletes themselves about the process of preparing power triathletes.…”

“…Based on the analysis of literature data, we can conclude that the issue of the manifestation of the adaptive reactions of the cardiovascular systems of athletes to physical activity in power triathlon has not been studied sufficiently [4,8,9].…”