Contraction type influences the human ability to use the available torque capacity of skeletal muscle during explosive efforts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1736, 2012, Pages 2106-2115

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

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concentric contractions; Eccentric contractions; Isometric contractions; Neural activation; Rate of torque development

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MUSCLE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

EID: 84859975587     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2109     Document Type: Article

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