Sentences with phrase «number of muscle fibres»

However the reverse may be true in the eccentric portion, where lowering the load more slowly increases muscle damage and metabolic stress within a selected number of muscle fibres.

Not exact matches

Explosive, pacey players have a greater number of fast twitch muscle fibres than more balanced players.

«That said, you can recruit and overload more muscle fibres by lifting a lighter resistance at a higher number of reps and still achieve equally as effective strength gains and muscular hypertrophy — provided you train to the muscle to fatigue.»

A muscle can either grow in size by increasing the diameter of the muscle fibres, whilst the number of fibres remains constant.

Myofibrillar hypertrophy is an increase in the number and size of myofibrils in your muscle fibres.

Hyperplasia Hyperplasia is when your muscle fibres are split, the idea being that it should result in a larger number of fivers, theoretically the same size as your original muscle fibres.