Strength training: Do Golgi tendon organs really inhibit muscle activity at high force levels to save muscles from injury, and adapt with strength training?

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 239-249

  Chalmers, Gordon ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Animalx; Autogenic inhibition; GTO; Human; Motoneuron

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008827395     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140208522800     Document Type: Article

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