correlational
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People with more fast-twitch muscles or who are older may bounce back slower after workouts and are more likely to get overtrained than younger people or those with more slow-twitch muscles.
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Muscle fiber typology is associated with the incidence of overreaching in response to overload training.
Cohort Study
Human
2020 Oct 1Runners with more fast-twitch muscle fibers were more likely to get overly tired from intense training and didn’t recover as well, while those with more slow-twitch fibers handled the training better and improved more after rest.
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