So could you explain how you went about designing your study and what were you trying to find out?

Yes, of course.

So, you know, as we're talking about the jerk, the jerk is a little bit different than the snatch and clean in the sense that it starts with a counter movement, right? We have the dip phase and we have our thrust phase.

And then if anyone's performed the split jerk or push press with a pause in the dip, you know how... essential it is to make sure that you can dip down and then drive back up fluidly to be able to put the barbell over your head.

So we're using that stretch shortening cycle and it's going to be key.

If we're doing the stretch shortening cycle, we know that there's different ways that we can manipulate that eccentric phase and that eccentric muscle action to be able to enhance or to continue to train that stretch shortening cycle to get better benefits.

So we know that increasing the muscle tension during the eccentric phase will help us.

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