Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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26.06.2022 |
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Focus on a muscle group during strength training | This is the effect
If you really want to develop a muscle group through strength training, focus your attention on that muscle group, some trainers and strength athletes advise. This advice is not without scientific foundation, we read in a study we came across today.
Study
The greater the electrical activity in muscles, the more intensively those muscles exert themselves.
On one occasion the subjects were asked to bench press and nothing else. On the other occasion the subjects had to focus on their triceps, on the other on their pectoral muscle.
Results
Focusing on a muscle group, however, only increased the electrical activity at a load of up to sixty percent of the 1RM.
Conclusion
"Verbal instruction not only increases muscle activity without subsequent decreases in the concurrent muscle activity, but also may provide additional activity to some extent of the concurrent muscle."
"The practical application is that intensity of muscle activity can be increased to some extent simply by focusing on using that muscle without increasing external load."
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