Short-term training for explosive strength causes neural and mechanical adaptations

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 630-641

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

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPLOSIVE MUSCULAR FORCE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL ADAPTATION; PERIPHERAL ADAPTATION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TRAINING; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

EID: 84860320286     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2011.063040     Document Type: Article

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