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Muscle injury, repair and aging with Dr Abigail Mackey

Inside Exercise

CHAPTER

The Repeated Brutus Effect

It's an interesting feel to try to find out what causes the repeat about effect because there could be some clues in there as to how we can protect athletes against injury, for example. I remember they used to talk about this years ago this susceptible fiber idea that you do eccentric so just so people know at home if they don't know so he said so when you're contracting and you're shortening the muscle. That's concentric when the muscles contracting and it's lengthening that's eccentric. We also know the muscle can produce the highest forces during eccentric contractions. But yeah with all training we have this we have to remember the principle of recruitment of motor units which is one of the

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