Higher effort, rather than higher load, for resistance exercise-induced activation of muscle fibres

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¹ Institute for Health and Sport (IHES), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Health Sciences, Lehman College, Bronx, NY, USA.

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Jozo Grgic et al. J Physiol. 2019 Sep.

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. 2019 Sep;597(18):4691-4692.

doi: 10.1113/JP278627. Epub 2019 Aug 21.

¹ Institute for Health and Sport (IHES), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Health Sciences, Lehman College, Bronx, NY, USA.

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Muscle fibre activation is unaffected by load and repetition duration when resistance exercise is performed to task failure.
Morton RW, Sonne MW, Farias Zuniga A, Mohammad IYZ, Jones A, McGlory C, Keir PJ, Potvin JR, Phillips SM. Morton RW, et al. J Physiol. 2019 Sep;597(17):4601-4613. doi: 10.1113/JP278056. Epub 2019 Jul 27. J Physiol. 2019. PMID: 31294822 Clinical Trial.

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