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The Effects of Slow Training on Muscle Strength

The amount of tension that's generated in a muscle during any given set is related to the number of fibers that are contracting. In a muscle fiber the slower the rate at which these actin and myosin filament slide past each other the greatest number of cross bridges or links that get formed between the filaments. The more cross bridges there are the more tension you create okay so the more tensionyou create the more motor units are firing. physiologically what can occur is a very large stimulus in muscle strength development when these fibers are moving more slowly against each other it's very synonymous to how a muscle hypertrophy occurs  in an environment in which there's a large amount of lactic

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