Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

hey guys…

so i just got accepted to grad school here in the USA and i wanted to get a little head start on my degree...i know alot of you guys read journals and are into research so i wanted to ask for any ideas you might have as for what i could do my thesis paper on...my degree will be in coaching and conditioning and i have a bachelor degree in exercise science…

i am very much into jumping and anything related to jumping and that is what i want to do the paper on....just not sure what exactly about it…

any ideas are welcome...thankyou. 

Effects of leg stiffness on single leg jumping performance (as in the horizontals). 

Yes, i like that and i have been interested in that myself…

Any quick ideas as too how i might go about getting research? 

Is it a literature review research paper or something that you are actually collecting data on?

I will want to collect data and do an original study...i want it to be quite groundbreaking...lol

any ideas?

To be honest, you're going to find it nearly impossible to do anything ground-breaking as a Master's thesis. Ground-breaking work typically takes several years to set up....requiring at least doctoral level time frames and commitment.

For 'doable' and applied ideas, some other ideas might be takeoff velocity comparisons of the top long jumpers from 2006 and the top long jumpers from say 1991 or 1988 (when LJ was at it's peak). Speed is the most fundamental element of long jump performance and many of today's long jumpers aren't even capable of running as fast as those of year's past regardless of how technically proficient they may be...which is why marks are down so far from 15-20 years ago.