Strength Training: In Search of Optimal Strategies to Maximize Neuromuscular Performance
Jacques Duchateau, Séverine Stragier, Stéphane Baudry, Alain Carpentier
Abstract
Training with low-load exercise performed under blood flow restriction can augment muscle hypertrophy and maximal strength to a similar extent as the classical high-load strength training method. However, the blood flow restriction method elicits only minor neural adaptations. In an attempt to maximize training-related gains, we propose using other protocols that combine high voluntary activation, mechanical tension, and metabolic stress.
Topics & Concepts
Blood flow restrictionStrength trainingTraining (meteorology)Physical medicine and rehabilitationMuscle strengthMuscle hypertrophyComputer scienceTension (geology)Resistance trainingMedicinePhysical therapyCardiologyMaterials sciencePhysicsCompression (physics)Composite materialMeteorologyCardiovascular and exercise physiologySports Performance and TrainingMuscle activation and electromyography studies