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The Science of Fatigue

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The Effects of Capillaries on the Brain

Kase: The brain is getting feedback, obviously neuromuscular, back to it saying, right, we've got more capillaries here. Therefore, you can make us work, we can work a bit harder without you slowing us down. Is that kind of some place to go up? So in the end of act's knowing, but it may not necessarily know the why. Some of them are. Samarkas and mine is a physiologist from the US,. I think it was of Utah, and they did these really nifty studies. They measure muscle activation. That's the signal that the brain sends to the muscle. In this case, it would be the quads

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