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Is there an intermuscular relationship in voluntary activation capacities and contractile kinetics?

Elyse HucteauMarc JubeauChristophe CornuThomas Cattagni
Published in: European journal of applied physiology (2020)
These results show that there is a partial common construct of maximal voluntary activation capacities that only concerns muscle groups that have incomplete activation during MVC (i.e., knee extensors and plantar flexors). This suggests that the common construct of MVC strength between these two muscle groups is partly influenced by neural mechanisms. The lack of intermuscular relationship of contractile kinetics showed that there is no common construct of muscle contractile kinetics, as assessed in vivo by investigating the time-course of evoked doublet twitch contractions.
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