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10.3.1 — Short Answer Questions

Q.Define Strength?

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Strength is a conditional ability — the force muscles produce to overcome resistance — and underlies almost every sporting movement.

The chapter calls strength "one of the most crucial motor components of fitness," a conditional ability that depends on the energy-liberation process inside muscles. Three definitions are given: H. Singh calls it "the ability to overcome resistance or to act against resistance"; Barrow and McGee call it "the capacity of the whole body or any of its parts to exert force"; and Mathews calls it "the force that a muscle or group of muscles can exert against a resistance in one maximum effort." Because every sporting movement is caused by muscular contrac …

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