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#71 - Aging, inactivity, atrophy and exercise with Professor Sue Bodine

Inside Exercise

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Common Misconceptions in Exercise Physiology

This chapter addresses common misconceptions in exercise physiology, including the belief that muscle building requires severe muscle degradation and the difficulty in accurately measuring muscle quality and specific tension in humans. The speakers discuss the differences between slow and fast twitch muscle fibers and the forces generated within them, as well as the effects of aging, inactivity, atrophy, and exercise on muscles.

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