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. 1985 Aug;365:277–284. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1985.sp015771

Adaptation of mechanical properties of muscle to high force training in man.

C T Davies, P Dooley, M J McDonagh, M J White
PMCID: PMC1193001  PMID: 4032314

Abstract

The first dorsal interosseus muscle of the hand was trained for 8 weeks using eighty maximal 10 s voluntary isometric contractions per day. As a result of this training the maximal voluntary force increased by 33%, but electrically evoked tetanic tension increased by only 11%. In other subjects the muscle was trained using electrical stimulation at 60 Hz to evoke eighty maximal 10 s tetani per day for 8 weeks. This training produced no increase in maximum voluntary force. Our results show that the increase in maximal voluntary force under these conditions may be due to a change in the voluntary neural drive to the muscle.

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