Is it important to understand the structure of our muscles? Most importantly, how important is it to understand the structure of our muscles in relation to our muscles exercise routine, Repetition, sets, tempo and so on?
Muscles as we know are formed by either a slow-contract structure or a fast-contract structure, one wise thing to do when deciding the muscles exercise technique we are going to adopt is to find out the type of structure a muscle is made of, for example a muscle made of high level of slow-contracts structure reacts more favorably to high Repetitions, so high level of slow-contracts structured muscles are more adequately trained in the 15 or over repetitions to allow the muscle to be enough time under pressure. On the other hand fast-contracts structured muscles are more responsive to lower numbers of repetitions and are more adequately trained in the 6 to 12 repetitions.
So how do you decide your muscle structure for any given muscle? One way to find out the structure of a muscle is by determining the number of times you can lift a sub-maximal weight, for example if two people lift the same weight and one can lift it 5 times while the other one can lift it 15 times, the person who has lifted the weight 5 times has a fast-structured muscle while the other has a slow structure muscle, this type of test is particularly true for untrained or beginners folks.
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