Sentences with phrase «more muscle fibers at»

This trick allows you to recruit more muscle fibers at a faster rate.

Loenneke suspects that the swelling combined with the buildup of metabolites (called metabolic stress) may activate more muscle fiber at low intensities — i.e., when you use light weights.

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Tricep dips help you target all three triceps heads at once with a heavy load which translates to a maximal recruitment of muscle fibers and more growth.

The most important advantage of this squat variant is that it forces you to pause at the bottom, which then forces you to recruit more muscle fibers to get out of the hole and back up, and that translates to bigger strength and mass gains.

In addition, the main advantages of the dumbbell pull - over over the straight - arm pull - down is that it offers a greater stretch at midpoint and can be used to recruit more muscle fibers.

By now you should be able to completely activate your muscles during a session and you're more effective at focusing the power of your fibers.

Training at this intensity primarily uses slow - twitch muscle fibers, since these fibers provide more most of the mobility for events lasting 2 minutes or longer, workouts at this intensity should comprise most of your training.Training above this intensity will not significantly overload your slow - twitch fibers, which you are attempting to train to become more efficient at using fat and oxygen to produce energy while conserving carbohydrate stores.

Through overspeed training, not only do your neurons literally learn how to fire faster and control your muscles more efficiently at higher speeds, but you also develop more powerful and quick muscle fiber contractions, which, as you've already learned, is crucial for performance, function and longevity.

Essentially, the longer fibers require more time to go from slack to taut, at the onset of a muscle contraction (Blazevich et al. 2008; 2009).

Speed training teaches your brain to fire faster and control your muscles more efficiently at higher speeds and also develops quicker and more powerful muscle - fiber contractions.

Things can get a little more complicated, especially under fatigue where motor unit cycling1 comes into play, but that's the basic gist of where this idea comes from: Type 1 muscle fibers are recruited first and take a long time to fatigue, leading you to think they'd grow the most when exposed to lighter weights for high reps. Type 2 muscle fibers are recruited more when the muscles are loaded heavier, at least for the first few reps, leading you to think they'd grow the most when exposed to heavier loads for lower reps. 2

1Some muscle fibers drop out when they fatigue, and other muscle fibers are recruited so force output doesn't drop off, which means total muscle activation over the course of a set may be the same with heavy and light loads, even if activation at any given time point is higher with heavier loads 2 It's a little more complicated than that, if you care to dig deeper.

The reason more mitochondria don't always mean that you run faster (instead of longer) is because (1) you may have far more mitochondria than necessary to process the maximum amount of oxygen your lungs can take in and your red blood cells transport at any given time, (2) regardless of how many mitochondria you have, the motor neurons connected to your aerobic muscle fibers are smaller than those connected to your anaerobic muscle fibers.

Now, without leaning your trunk forward or arching your back, slowly lift the leg straight back to contract the muscle fibers higher and higher up the buttock, but don't contract more than halfway up, and don't allow your foot to turn out at all.

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Longer muscle fibers contract more quickly than shorter muscle fibers because all of the sarcomeres in a single muscle fiber contract at the same time.