Movement specificity - what does it mean?

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Movement specificity - what does it mean?

01/02/2012

By Philip Graham-Smith, Paul Comfort, Paul Jones and Martyn Matthews

When an exercise is described as ‘specific’, there is an assumption it is transferable to a sports skill. This interpretation focuses on whether the exercise adopts similar characteristics to a sports skill.

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