Positive effects from sports are achieved primarily through physical activity, but secondary
effects bring health benefits such as psychosocial and personal development and less …

Human skeletal muscle demonstrates remarkable plasticity, adapting to numerous external
stimuli including the habitual level of contractile loading. Accordingly, muscle function and …

Drawing on the disciplines of neurophysiology and physics, Neuromechanics of Human
Movement, Fourth Edition, explores how the nervous system controls the actions of muscles …

Key points Performing resistance exercise with heavier loads is often proposed to be
necessary for the recruitment of larger motor units and activation of type II muscle fibres …

Skeletal muscle is comprised of heterogeneous muscle fibers that differ in their physiological
and metabolic parameters. It is this diversity that enables different muscle groups to provide …

The largest mammalian cells are the muscle fibers, and they have multiple nuclei to support
their large cytoplasmic volumes. During hypertrophic growth, new myonuclei are recruited …

Mammalian skeletal muscles are composed of a variety of highly specialized fibers whose
selective recruitment allows muscles to fulfill their diverse functional tasks. In addition …

A present debate in muscle biology is whether myonuclear addition is required during
skeletal muscle hypertrophy. We utilized K-means cluster analysis to classify 66 humans …

The maintenance of skeletal muscle mass plays a critical role in health and quality of life.
One of the most potent regulators of skeletal muscle mass is mechanical loading, and …

The use of doping agents, particularly anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), has changed
from being a problem restricted to sports to one of public-health concern. We review the …