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Illustration of the different measurements taken on the isolated muscles. Muscle fibre length (FL) and pennation angle (PA) are measured on the longitudinally dissected muscle belly (lower inset). Legend: Length = total muscle–tendon length, BL = muscle belly length, BW = belly width, LET = length of the external tendon, FL = muscle fibre length and PA = pennation angle.
