Sentences with phrase «percentage of muscle groups»

While abdominal exercises, like crunches and sit - ups, work the front of your stomach — also known as the rectus abdominis — they only tap into a small percentage of muscle groups in your core.

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Put another way, the percentage of weight loss coming from muscle mass was 20 % in the weight loss plus walking group, 16 % in the weight loss alone group, and 10 % in the weight loss plus weight training group.

The total number of fibers (EDL: 13,729; TA: 20,466; soleus: 13,303) and percentage of CNFs were manually calculated for both groups from stained sections acquired at the mid-abdomen area of the muscles.

In this specific study, the scientists monitored body fat percentage, lean muscle mass and strength of three separate groups of trained individuals that trained once a week for eight weeks total.

These exercises produce the highest percentage of electromyographic activity in gluteus maximus muscle group.

The percentages of these different fiber types that your muscles are made of can help you determine exactly how you should train each particular muscle group in your body.

At baseline, no group differences were observed in the percentages of type I and type II muscle fibers and / or the percentage of muscle area occupied by types I and II fibers.

Percentage of types I and II muscle fiber did not change in either group after 12 wk of exercise intervention (Supplemental Table 1).

In contrast, percentage of type II muscle fiber area increased significantly from 54 % ± 3 % to 65 % ± 3 % in the PRO group after resistance - type exercise training (P < 0.05), whereas no changes were observed in the PLA group.

Using the strict definition, voluntary activation refers to the percentage of involuntary force production that can be exerted by an agonist muscle group, most commonly using the interpolated twitch technique (Shield & Zhou, 2004).