Friday, March 5, 2010

Static lunge

In 2000 (and on a few other occasions) I published and claimed copyright on this exercise description (bolding added now):

Static Lunge

Place the bar on your back or dumbbells in your hand, and take a long step out. The shin of the lead leg will determine the horizontal length of this step during the lowering. Keep it fairly vertical. Also, aim to keep the trunk vertical throughout the movement.

The bottom position should be one where the knee of the rear leg is almost brushing the ground. The top position should be just short of end of range. Complete all the reps on this first side (which of course you will know to be your weak side) before going with the other leg. Yes, you can take a short rest between legs - no more than 30 seconds though.

I was conducting research and I came upon the following exercise in a publication copyright claimed by another 'author' at a subsequent date (bolding added):

Static Lunge

Place the bar on your back or dumbbells in your hand, and take a long step out. The shin of the lead leg will determine the horizontal length of this step during the lowering. Keep it fairly vertical. Also, aim to keep the trunk vertical throughout the movement.

The bottom position should be one where the knee of the rear leg is almost brushing the ground. The top position should be just short of end of range. Complete all the reps on this first side (which of course you will know to be your weak side) before going with the other leg. Yes, you can take a short rest between legs - no more than 30 seconds though.

And I said to myself: “That looks familiar!” So I cross-referenced it and I said to myself: “Wow! No wonder that looked familiar!”

And I came upon this description another 4 or so more times by the same 'author' in different publications.

I noted that the use of this description was in the absence of credits or references to the origin or permission to use from the original author (myself), and that the 'author' claimed copyright....

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