Through imaging biceps muscles via three noninvasive methods, stroke patients had fewer sarcomeres along the length of the muscle fiber, resulting in a shorter overall muscle structure.  Great work from Wendy Murray pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34172565/

Muscle fiber elongation (not whole muscle) is likely a cause for sarcomerogenesis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16133258/

Greta papers on muscle soreness: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40076941/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40076941/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38267849/

Compression garments may aid in recovery from muscle damage? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Many speculate that the addition of serial sarcomere number is a mechanism of the REB. This really interesting paper from @Geoff_A_Power show it might not (at least in the initial stage) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Really good work from Arthur Cheng on CWI for recovery. However, it seems hardly conclusive as it is plausible that the intervention is not that fatiguing and the CWI is not warranted as a recovery treatment! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sm…

Those claims, in my opinion, are a bit deceptive. They haven't conducted research comparing the scaling of single fibers against entire muscles, though, and they don't have any data on load bearing!

Passive tension by muscle fibers is affected by lengthening velocity? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24360198/

One of my favorite papers that shows just imagining doing max effort exercises but not actually activating the muscle or moving joints produces strength gains almost as much as the group that did the exercises! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1597701/

Some data on sEMG changes with different loads: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37559769/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34329514/

One of the theories onto why we increase ROM over time is due to the addition of sarcomeres added in series. This review goes over factors likely increasing ROM: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

There’s no strong evidence on the importance and fact of O2 level differences as having much of an effect on body size. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/ar…

New podcast with Anthony Blazevich out now! With nearly 3 hours of valuable insights into the complexity of skeletal muscle and hypertrophy: youtu.be/Oc0FSbijXb0?si…

Podcast with Dr. Gerard McMahon out now! In this episode Dr. McMahon goes over the misunderstanding of tension for muscle growth and more: youtu.be/8tI8SZOT0RM?si…

I think this is a misunderstanding of the literature. For one, while we are twice as strong in the ECC that’s only for vitro settings. In vivo data suggest we are around 12-20% stronger (Armstrong et al., 2022).

Juvenile alligators raised at O2 levels up to 30% showed affects in their growth and metabolic pathways of extinct vertebrates.   pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC27…

Free radicals in moderation maybe good for you: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21486840/

Depressions in my-ATPase activity contribute to ECC-induced decreases in force and power: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Interesting paper from Simon Gandevia but I’m curious to see more rigorous work in the spinal cord. This sounds very similar to the term functional differentiation: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30985474/

It seems that the Henneman’s size principle is insufficient to explain motor unit recruitment order: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37988235/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34783651/