Dipping into the Bodyrecomposition Mailbag 2
So since I can’t think of any fascinatingly tedious topic to address this week, I’ll go the lazy route and just go with some questions instead. Always easier when someone else gives you your topic.
A Comparison of Strength and Muscle Mass Increases During Resistance Training in Young Women
But that’s that. In the short-term for beginner, more complex movements, within the limitations of this (and other studies) appear to give POORER muscle growth while strength is being gained with the growth from simpler movements showing up earlier.
Rehabbing an Injury
A quick trip to the doctor along with some X-rays determined that, thankfully, it wasn’t an ACL tear. Rather, the hip joint was injured. It didn’t appear to be too severe but I was told to bring them back if it wasn’t improving after a number of weeks. Painkillers were provided to be used as necessary and the trainee used them fairly continuously for the first two weeks simply to facilitate overall daily activity.
Determinants of Strength Performance Part 3
So last week’s discussion of the Stretch Shorten Cycle and strength performance got a little bit away from me which is why I had to add a third part to this series. But I will wrap up today, first by looking at the contribution of neural factors to strength performance before trying to summarize the series.
Determinants of Strength Performance Part 2
Although it kind of fits in with the impact of muscular factors on strength performance, I want to discuss the stretch shorten cycle (SSC) separately. This refers to a situation where a muscle is first stretched (an eccentric muscle contraction) before shortening (a concentric muscle action); there is also a brief isometric muscle action where the muscle doesn’t change length in-between the two. When this happens, a greater amount of force is generated than would occur otherwise and this improve strength performance.
