Fast unilateral isometric knee extension torque development and bilateral jump height

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1843-1852

  De Ruiter, Cornelis J ^a   Van Leeuwen, Daniel ^a   Heijblom, Arjan ^a   Bobbert, Maarten F ^a   De Haan, Arnold ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EMG; Human; Torque rise; Voluntary muscle activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; KINEMATICS; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; TORQUE;

EID: 33749490369     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000227644.14102.50     Document Type: Article

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