Sentences with phrase «comparing biceps muscle»

Very limited data exists comparing biceps muscle activity during different horizontal pulling exercises.

Macdougall et al. (1984) compared the biceps muscle cross-sectional area of untrained, intermediate and elite - level male bodybuilders.

Not exact matches

The most important reason for this phenomenon is the fact that the brachialis muscle has more slow - twitch fibers than the biceps, and therefore, has more of a stabilizing role compared to the biceps brachii which is meant for faster, more explosive work.

The upper arms, which include the biceps and triceps, are quite small compared to most other muscle groups.

A biceps curl can create more eccentric damage, more metabolite build - up, and greater sustained tension in the biceps muscle than doing chin - ups — so can a triceps pushdown compared to a weighted dip, or a forearm curl compared to a heavy row.

Oliveira et al. (2009) compared the muscle activity during three types of biceps dumbbell curl, including the standing curl, seated incline curl and the preacher curl.

They report that inverted rows performed from a barbell (77 %) produced statistically superior muscle activity in the biceps compared with the suspension trainer (67 %) variation.

Schantz et al. (1983) compared the muscle cross-sectional area between male and female students (aged 26 years) and reported much lower biceps muscle cross-sectional area.

However, comparing the exercises showed that the biceps displayed 17.9 % greater muscle activity during the chin - up (96 % MVC) compared with the pull - up (78 %) exercise.

They reported that the biceps brachii displayed significantly greater muscle activity when performing the free - weight bench press compared to the smith machine at 60 % but not 80 % of 1RM.

Biceps brachii muscle activity seems to be higher in the bench press using free - weights compared to machine resistance.

Interestingly, the Nordic curl produces greater increases in muscle fascicle length and preferential biceps femoris (short head) and semitendinosus hypertrophy compared to hip extension - based hamstrings exercises (Bourne et al. 2016).

From the limited literature, it is apparent that the biceps femoris (long head) and the semimembranosus are the heaviest muscles, while the biceps femoris (short head) and semitendinosus are usually the lightest when comparing within studies, although there are discrepancies (Wickiewicz et al. 1983; Ito et al. 2003; Horsman et al. 2007; Ward et al. 2009; Kellis et al. 2012).