Sentences with phrase «slow contraction time»

Slow - twitch muscle fibers have slow contraction time and are very resistant to muscle fatigue (that is why they are also known as endurance muscle fibers).

Not exact matches

Drugs she needs mostly due to unnecessary interventions like induction... Because of the epidural, the woman hardly feels the contractions, contractions slow down, more drugs... which leads to more pain killers and many times to a c - section.

I would have bouts where the contractions would be 5 minutes apart but would slow back down any time I rested.

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Unfortunately, there's no simple way to wrap your mind around this one, but time slowing and length contraction are two sides of the same coin.

The observation of reduced calsequestrin in the muscles of IL - 15Rα — KO mice is interesting inasmuch as calsequestrin concentrations are reported to be higher in fast muscles (52) and fast muscles from calsequestrin - 1 — null mice display contractile characteristics similar to those of slow muscles, including longer contraction times and half - relaxation times (ν RTs)(53).

Slow contractions: Contract and lift your pelvic floor muscles for a count of 10, then relax your pelvic floor muscles for 10 seconds and repeat the contraction / relaxation 10 times.

The contraction times during both slow and fast exercises are typically determined through the use of electronic jump mats or force plates, and serve as an important variable when looking to develop the SSC.

The slow SSC involves longer contraction times (0.25 - 0.50 s), larger angular displacements and can be observed in exercises such as countermovement jumps or box jumps.

Low threshold muscles consist of slow - twitch (Type I) muscle fibers and can sustain force and contraction for an extended period of time.

It has been assumed that muscles with shorter twitch contraction time show predominance in fast twitch or type II muscle fibers and exhibit greater force than those muscles with longer twitch contraction times such as slow twitch or type I fibers.