Neuromuscular adaptations associated with knee joint angle-specific force change

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1525-1537

  Noorkõiv, Marika ^a   Nosaka, Kazunori ^a   Blazevich, Anthony J ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross sectional area; Fascicle length; Hypertrophy; Muscle length

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING;

EID: 84904693636     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000269     Document Type: Article

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