Not exact matches
Strongman training is different to regular weight training in a way that it tends to involve more dynamic movements utilizing multiple
muscle groups, resulting with a higher
degree of neural stress and a more favorable hormone response.
Since these simple exercises contract and extend the major
muscle groups, including the core stabilizing
muscles, you can do them anytime with varying
degrees of difficulty.
They trained for four months, after which the
degree of hypertrophy [12] was assessed and the
group divided into three subsections: those whose thigh
muscle fibers grew 50 %, those whose grew 25 %, and those whose didn't grow at all.
First
of all, as you can see by the charts, all variations activated each
muscle group to nearly the same
degree.
When you look at EMG data, a measure
of what
degree you're activating
muscles, it shows that planks target multiple
muscle groups and ones that miss out when you do standard ab exercises like crunches.
They tested joint angles from long (90
degrees of knee flexion) to short (30
degrees of knee flexion)
muscle lengths, expecting to see greater gains for the isotonic
group at both ends
of the range
of motion, where loading was higher than in the middle.