Feb 14th Content

Question 1

Impact of Hypertrophy on Strength and Sport Performance study commentary

Answer 1

authors no suggesting muscle size does not influence strength, but hypertrophy from RT does not accumulate in magnitudes high enough to further increase strength

Question 2

Impact of Hypertrophy on Strength and Sport Performance study counterpoint

Answer 2

increase in various strength skills could provide dwindling benefits as strength skill becomes further removed from movement or performance task

Question 3

Changes in agonist neural drive study purpose

Answer 3

assess individual combined contribution of adaptations in neural and morphological variables while accounting for influence in pre-training strength to individual changes in strength after FT

Question 4

Changes in agonist neural drive study methods

Answer 4

examined muscle csa, pennation angle, voluntary activation, EMG, baseline strength

Question 5

Changes in agonist neural drive study results

Answer 5

contribution of hypertrophy was secondary to neural intervention

hypertrophy did contribute to explained variance in strength

Question 6

Behavior of motor units study results

Answer 6

for same neural output, strength-trained athletes are able to produce greater absolute muscle forces; demonstrated morphological factors as predominant mechanism for force generation during submax efforts

Question 7

Muscle size and strength: separate phenomenon counterargument

Answer 7

accepted that strength and size are not perfectly couples, most RT studies have limited hypertrophy due to short duration, measurement issues

Question 8

Correlations do not show cause and effect study key points

Answer 8

studies not originally designed to answer question of role of training-induced increase in size and strength

data from lac suggest training-induced increase in size appear to play little role in strength increases