Sentences with phrase «twitch muscle group»

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This makes the hamstrings one of the key «speed muscles» in the body which enable us to run fast, which is why they tend to be more fast - twitch dominant that other muscle groups.

If you can do 1 - 7 reps then that muscle group is composed of more than 50 % fast twitch muscle fibers.

The shoulders are the only upper body muscle group that displays a tendency towards a higher proportion of type I muscle fibers (Jennekens et al. 1971; Johnson et al. 1973; Humphrey et al. 1982; Tesch et al. 1983; Mavidis et al. 2007; Srinivasan et al. 2007), while the pectoralis major (Johnson et al. 1973; Srinivasan et al. 2007) is mixed - fast twitch.

If your fibers in a particular muscle group consist primarily of fast twitch muscle fibers, you're one of the lucky ones.

Unfortunately, slow twitch muscle fibers are limited in their potential for growth so even if a muscle group is primarily slow twitch, you should definitely include some lower rep training to maximize the fast twitch fibers you've got in that muscle.

In addition to burning more fat, a study by Aagaard and Anderson demonstrated that your body will also respond to strength training by improving the number of Type IIa (or fatigue - resistant) fast twitch muscle fibers in key muscle groups.

The best way I can describe it is like an eye twitch, but it is often in a much larger muscle group.

By contrast, vibration training is focused on the use of the body's fast twitch reflex muscle groups, which receive their energy from fat deposits rather than sugar.

It's my understanding that the amount of fast and slow twitch muscle fibres vary in muscle groups.

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).