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Vol. 71, No. 11, November 1991, pp. 855-856
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Jerome V Danoff

JV Danoff, PhD, PT, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Allied Health Sciences, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

The concept of practicing skills under unusual loaded conditions is not unprecedented. Situations in which increased loads are used include the batter warming up with a weighted bat, the runner wearing a weighted vest or holding hand weights, and the sprinter charging up steps. Decreased loads are usually relegated to individuals with injuries; for example, the power lifter working out with only the bar, the runner avoiding hills, and the physical therapy patient exercising in water. Gait, in particular, was practiced by many of us in an unloaded state through time spent in a baby walker.

One of the concerns of performing motor skills under nonstandard loads is that inappropriate motor patterns may develop.1 Some dedicated sprinters refuse to slowly run long distances because they are convinced that this practice will make them slower runners....


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