Short-term unilateral resistance training affects the agonist-antagonist but not the force-agonist activation relationship

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 375-384

  Tillin, Neale A ^a   Pain, Matthew T G ^a   Folland, Jonathan P ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coactivation; Interpolated twitch technique; Isometric strength training; Knee extensors; Rate of force development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; STRENGTH;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RESISTANCE TRAINING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951899626     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21885     Document Type: Article

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