Training-Specific Muscle Architecture Adaptation after 5-wk Training in Athletes

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2013-2022

  Blazevich, Anthony J ^a   Gill, Nicholas D ^b   Bronks, Roger ^c   Newton, Robert U ^d  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WAIKATO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fascicle; Movement pattern; Pennation; Specificity; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; JUMPING; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLES; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; RUNNING; SPORTS; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0345097648     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000099092.83611.20     Document Type: Article

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