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004: Training Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers with Dr. Andy Galpin

The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance

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The Effects of Training on Fast Twitch Fibers in Olympic Games

The female species is grossly unrepresented and specifically female athletes in sports science I've just basically nothing it's nations entirely in there. We really don't know much about the female athlete having said that we did just biopsy a whole bunch of females from our Olympic and world teams in Olympic waylifting. The highest level athletes the females had more fast twitch than even the men did wow so that was the first study uh to really ever look at the female athletes particularly from the speed strength side of the equation.

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