Whilst neural and morphological adaptations following resistance training (RT) have been investigated extensively at a group level, relatively little is known about the contribution of specific… (More)
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What is the central question of this study? Does contraction influence the fascicle length, pennation angle and effective physiological cross-sectional area (eff PCSA) of the quadriceps… (More)
Training specificity is considered important for strength training, although the functional and underpinning physiological adaptations to different types of training, including brief explosive… (More)
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The potential for tendinous tissues to adapt to functional overload, especially after several years of exposure to heavy-resistance training, is largely unexplored. This study compared the… (More)
the changes in agonist neural drive (r = 0.576) and pretraining strength (r = −0.429). Subsequently, hypertrophy contributed 19% towards a total of 60% explained variance in strength changes within… (More)
This study examined the association of muscle size and strength for the quadriceps and hamstrings, the relationship between the size of these muscles, and whether the H:Q size ratio influenced… (More)
Hamstrings muscle fiber composition may be predominantly fast-twitch and could explain the high incidence of hamstrings strain injuries. However, hamstrings muscle composition in vivo, and its… (More)
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What is the central question of this study? Do tendon and/or muscle-tendon unit stiffness influence rate of torque development? What is the main finding and its importance? In our… (More)
The effect of different strength training regimes, and in particular training utilizing brief explosive contractions, on tendinous tissue properties is poorly understood. This study compared the… (More)