After doing 12 weeks of static strength exercises, whether your quadriceps muscle fibers change their angle doesn’t seem to affect how much stronger you get.

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Changes in agonist neural drive, hypertrophy and pre-training strength all contribute to the individual strength gains after resistance training

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2017 Apr

The study found that even though people got stronger after doing isometric leg exercises, the way their thigh muscle fibers angled didn’t change in a way that explained why some got stronger than others.

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Changes in agonist neural drive, hypertrophy and pre-training strength all contribute to the individual strength gains after resistance training

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DOI: 10.1007/s00421-017-3560-x

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