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Muscle time under tension during resistance exercise stimulates differential muscle protein sub‐fractional synthetic responses in men

N. Burd,Richard Andrews,8 Authors,Stuart M Phillips

2012 · DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.221200
Journal of Physiology · 338 Citations

TLDR

The results suggest that the time the muscle is under tension during exercise may be important in optimizing muscle growth; this understanding enables us to better prescribe exercise to those wishing to build bigger muscles and/or to prevent muscle loss that occurs with ageing or disease.