What are the physiological determinants of maximum muscle strength? (2)

What is a tendon and what does it do?

What are muscle fibres made up of?

And what makes up those?

In what two ways are sarcomeres arranged and what does each arrangement influence?

What does in vivo mean?

What does in vitro mean?

After resistance training how much is muscle strength increased by?

What % did the size increase by?

What two methods can we use to measure muscle strength in vivo?

What methods can we use to measure neuromuscular activation in vivo?

How does voluntary muscle activation work?

What is interpolated twitch technique?

How does the interpolated twitch technique work?

How can we measure muscle size in vivo? (3)

What happens to muscle architecture after resistance training?

What is muscle specific force?

What causes an increase in muscle specific force in vivo? (2)

Name the 5 isolated single fibre contractile characteristics

What does histochemistry measure?

How does SDS PAGE work?

Define the anatomical cross-sectional area (ACSA)

What is the limitation?

Define the physiological cross-sectional area (PCSA)

Where is collagen found?

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