The Effects of Eccentric Exercise on Muscle Fibers

The benefits that you're going to see the most when you're talking about an untrained and relatively trained population, but it's starting to be diminished at the high elite level because of sport specificity. So maybe in some way, we can say that eccentric exercise will allow you to apply for longer, lower amount of force while concentric will create ability to apply much higher peak force at peak, but for much shorter times. In fact, what's called the repeated bout effect is where you get the doms, or muscle breakdown after doing a very heavy exercise like bench press. That's terrible. And so yeah, I would say our type two muscle fibers, those are fast switch muscle fibers