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Professor John Cronin
PhD (Auckland), BEd, MA, DipHighPerformaCoaching, DipPE, DipTchg
Professor, Strength and Conditioning
Exercise Science Stream

Phone: + 64 9 921 9999 ext 7523
john.cronin@aut.ac.nz

Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand

Areas of Leadership and Responsibility

Leader of the Strength and Conditioning Laboratory

Teaching and Research Areas
Strength and conditioning
Muscle mechanics and physiology
Sports biomechanics

Areas of Research and Areas Supervised
Strength and Conditioning, and biomechanics specialty areas:
Kinematics and kinetics of resistance training
Movement competency assessment
Development of strength, power, speed, balance and agility
Whole body vibration
Eccentric exercise

Current Research Projects

• Development of “movement competency” based assessment battery and application to developmental athletes (with PhD student Matt Kritz, USA).
• Neuromuscular readiness for training (with PhD student Kristie Lee Taylor and Australian Institute of Sport).
• Long term athlete development – windoes of trainability for strength and power development (with PhD student Cesar Meylan, Switzerland).
• Methods for assessing, monitoring and improving athletic performance (with PhD student Travis McMaster, Canada).
• Long term athlete development – windows of trainability for speed development speed (with PhD student Michael Rumpf, Germany).
• The development of maximal running speed characteristics with age, growth, maturity and training (with PhD student Rob Meyers, Wales).
• The acute effects of rubber based resistance on repetition and total set kinetics and kinematics during the bench press exercise (with Masters student, Adam Godfrey, NZ).
• Ground reaction force profiles of netball specific jump-landing tasks (with Masters student Guy Mothersole, NZ).
• Time-Motion analysis of the sport of Bike Motocross (with PhD student, John Cowell, USA).
• The reliability and validity of a continuum strength assessment to rowing performance (with PhD student Trent Lawton, Australia).
• Development of stretch shortening cycle capability in adolescence through the different maturational stages (with Masters student Sofyan Sahron, Singapore).
• Strength and conditioning for cricket fast bowlers (with Masters student Bryan Stronach, NZ).
• Transference of horizontal and vertical hip strengthening exercise to speed, acceleration, and power adaptations in sports performance (with PhD student, Bret Contreras, USA).
• Optimising fielding and wicket keeping ability: a movement analysis and conditioning perspective (with PhD student Dani MacDonald, UK).
• Kayaking (with Masters student Ben Keys).
  

Post Graduate Completions

• Aaron Randel (2011): The effect of kinematic and kinetic feedback on strength and power adaptation.
• Keir Hansen (2011): High- versus low-load training for lower body muscular power: effect of load and rest periods on mechanical and hormonal profiles and rating of perceived exertion in elite athletes.
• Jennifer Hewit (2011): Agility performance in netball players.
• Nick Webb (2011): Recovery strategies for high intensity intermittent contact sports.
  
• Teresa Ogen (2010): Time motion analysis of touch rugby.
  
• Nur Ikhwan Mohammed (2010): Kinematic and kinetic analysis of hypertrophic loading parameters and their influence on muscular adpatation.
  
• Simon Pearson (2010): Biomechanics and conditioning for the enhancement of grinding performance in America's Cup sailing.
• Cesar Meylan (2009): Kinematic and kinetic characteristics of unilateral jump assessments: reliability, asymmetry and relationship to jump performance.
• Travis McMaster (2009): Effect of resistance mode on squat and jump kinematics and kinetics.
• Matt Brughelli (2009): Shift in optimum length of length-tension relationship and influence on injury and functional performance.
• Nigel Harris (2008): Kinetics and kinematics of strength and power development.
• David Frost (2008): A biomechanical comparison of pneumatic and free weight resistance.
• Cailyn Rogers (2007): Assessment of static balance ability in an athletic population.
• Kevin Sheehy (2006):The acute effects of weight training on softball throwing velocity.
• Ian Wilcock (2005): The effect of water immersion, active recovery and passive recovery on repeated bouts of explosive exercise and blood plasma fraction.
• Lisa Weaver (2005): Balance in netballers.
• Michelle Nash (2005): The effect of vibration and static stretches on dynamic knee range of motion and lower limb function.
• Shantelle Bliss (2005): Bicycle seat designs and their effect on seat and handlebar pressure in male and female cyclists and comfort and stability in experienced, novice, male and female cyclists on a non-stationary bicycle.
• Jamie Denton (2004):The kinematic, kinetic and blood lactate profiles of continuous and intra-set rest loading schemes.
• Blair Crewther (2004): The mechanical, hormonal and metabolic responses to two resistance loading schemes.
• Greg Owen (2004): The influence of whole body vibration on knee extensor stiffness and functional performance.
• Johnny Claxton (2003): The pre-event preparation routine: the role of stretching.
• Keir Hansen (2002):  A kinematic analysis of acute and longitudinal adaptations to resisted sprinting.
  

Relevant Links

Adjunct Professorial Position at Edith Cowan University
Diploma High Performance Coaching (Canada)
Level IV Accreditation – Rugby (Canada)
Examiner for: Thesis students
External reviewer for: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport; Medicine and Science in Sport; Journal of Sports Science; Physical Therapy in Sport; Journal of Sports Biomechanics; International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance; and, Sport Science New Zealand research grants

Research Summary

John has research interests in human movement/ sport performance research particularly around the strengthening of muscle, these themes spanning high performance sport to long-term athlete development. John has:  published 140 peer-reviewed papers as well one book chapter; 40 invited or keynote presentations at national conferences and symposia and 80 national or international conference presentations.

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles (2011 and 2012 only):

• Mohamad, N. I., Cronin, J. B., & Nosaka, K. K. (2012). Difference in kinematics and kinetics between high- and low- velocity resistance loading equated by volume: implications for hypertrophy training. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 26(1), 269-275.
• Mohamad, N. I., Cronin, J. B., & Nosaka, K. K. (2012). The effect of aerobic exrecise during the interset rest periods on kinematics, kinetics, and lactate clearance of two resistance loading schemes. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 26(1), 73-79.
• Brughelli, M., Cronin, J., & Chaouachi, A. (2011). Effects of running velocity on running kinetics and kinematics. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(4), 933-939.
• Contreras, B., & Cronin, J. B. (2011). Barbell hip thrust. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 33(4), 58-61.
  
• Cowell, J. F., Cronin, J. B., & McGuigan, M. R. (2011). Time motion analysis of Supercross BMX Racing. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 10, 420-421.
• Cowell, J. F., McGuigan, M., & Cronin, J. (2011). Strength training considerations for the bicycle motorcross athlete. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 0(0), 1-7.
• Frost, D. M., & Cronin, J. B. (2011). Stepping back to improve sprint performance: a kinetic analysis of the first step forwards. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(10), 2721-2728.
  
• Hansen, K. T., Cronin, J. B., & Newton, M. J. (2011). The reliability of linear position transducer, force plate and combined measurement of explosive power-time variables during a loaded jump squat in elite athletes. Sports Biomechanics, 10(1), 46-58.
• Hansen, K. T., Cronin, J. B., Pickering, S. L., & Newton, M. J. (2011). Does cluster loading enhance lower body power development in preseason preparation of elite rugby union players? Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(8), 2118-2126.
• Hansen, K. T., Cronin, J. B., Pickering, S. L., & Douglas, L. (2011). Do force-time and power-time measures in a loaded jump squat differentiate between speed performance and playing level in elite and elite junior rugby union players? Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(9), 2382-2391.
• Hansen, K. T., Cronin, J. B., & Newton, M. J. (2011). Three methods of calculating force-time variables in the rebound jump squat. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(3), 867-871.
• Hansen, K. T., Cronin, J. B., & Newton, M. J. (2011). The reliability of linear position transducer and force plate measurement of explosive force-time variables during a loaded jump squat in elite athletes. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(5), 1447-1456.
• Hewit, J., Cronin, J., Button, C., & Hume, P. (2011). Understanding deceleration in sport. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 33(1), 47-52.
• Jidovtseff, B., Harris, N. K., Criellard, J., & Cronin, J. B. (2011). Using the load-velocity relationship for 1RM prediction. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(1), 267-270.
• Lawton, T., Cronin, J., McGuigan, M. (2011). Strength testing and training of rowers. Sports Medicine, 41(5), 413-432.
• Meylan, C., Cronin, J., Oliver, J., & Hughes, M. (2010). Talent identification in soccer: the role of maturity status on physical, physiological and technical characteristics. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 5(4), 571-592.
• Meylan, C., Nosaka, K., Green, J., & Cronin, J. (2011). The effect of three different start thresholds on the kinematics and kinetics of a countermovement jump. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(4), 1164-1167.
• Mohamad, N. I., Nosaka, K., & Cronin, J. (2011). Maximizing hypertrophy: possible contribution of stretching in the Interset rest period. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 33(1), 81-87.
• Randell, A. D., Cronin, J. B., Keogh, J. W. L., Gill, N. D., & Pedersen, M. C. (2011). Reliability of performance velocity for jump squats under feedback and nonfeedback conditions. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(12), 3514-3518.
• Randell, A. D., Cronin, J. B., Keogh, J. W. L., Gill, N. D., & Pederson, M. C. (2011). Effect of instantaneous performance feedback during 6 weeks of velocity-based resistance training on sport-specific performance tests. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(1), 87-93.
• Requena, B., Garcia, I., Requena, F., Saez-Saez de Villarreal, E., & Cronin, J. B. (2011). Relationship between traditional and ballistic squat exercise with vertical jumping and maximal sprinting. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 25(8), 2193-2204.
  
• Taylor, K., Cronin, J. B., Gill, N. D., Chapman, D. W., & Sheppard, J. M. (2011). Warm-up effects diurnal variation in power output. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 32, 185-189.
  

Conference Proceedings (2011 only):

• McMaster, T., Gill, N. D., Cronin, J., & McGuigan, M. R. (2011, 17-18 November). Accelerometer placement greatly affects jump kinematics and kinetics. Presented at the meeting of the SPRINZ Strength and Conditioning Conference, AUT University, Auckland.
• Rumpf, M. C., & Cronin, J. B. (2011, 26-30 May). Does skill assessment support national selection? Presented at the VIIth World Conference on Science & Football, Osaka, Japan.
• Rumpf, M. C., & Cronin, J. B. (2011, 28-30 September). Skill and physical development in long-term player development in football. Presented at the 5th ISN International Sports Medicine and Sports Science Conference 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Rumpf, M., Meylan, C. M., & Cronin, J. (2011, 17-18 November). Reliability of a new change of direction test for team sports. Presented at the meeting of the SPRINZ Strength and Conditioning Conference, AUT University, Auckland.

Invited Speaker Presentations (2011 only):

• Cronin, J. (2011, 28-10 September). Assessment-programme connect: strength and power training. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the 5th ISN International Sports Medicine and Sport Science Conference: Strength and Conditioning, National Sports Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
• Cronin, J. (2011, 16 February). Development of strength, power, speed and agility for human performance (Part 1 and 2). Symposium conducted at the meeting of the ISN Lecture Series 2/2011: Strength and Conditioning, National Sports Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

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