The best example for this is sled training, which lacks a lengthening,
eccentric muscle motion that's mainly responsible for tissue damage, thereby resulting with lower creatine kinase (the key marker of muscle damage) levels than traditional weight training.
Not exact matches
We're talking
eccentric contraction of
muscles so they are both the primary
muscle (s) in the initiation and completion of a
motion, while ALSO lengthening the
muscle in the process.
We are able to provide perfect resistance for each exercise thereby optimally loading the skeletal
muscle for the entire range - of -
motion, including the negative or
eccentric phase of the movement.
However, focusing on
eccentric motions can be a major key to
muscle gain and strength.
Short range reps don't challenge the
eccentric range of
motion so
muscle soreness is less likely.
The opposite of concentric (the upward
motion that shortens
muscle fibers), «
eccentric training involves lengthening the
muscle fibers back out and lowering the weight down.
When you train using only concentric and
eccentric muscle contractions without out pausing at the end range of a movement (exercise) when the desired
muscle is fully contracted, your joints don't get strong and stable at the end range of
motion.
The researchers suggested that these findings imply that hip flexor length affects gluteus maximus and hamstrings EMG amplitudes during squatting
motions, at least during
eccentric muscle actions.