A Mental Model For Stretch Mediated Hypertrophy

from blog Casey Rodarmor's Blog, | ↗ original
Lots of studies support stretch-mediated hypertrophy: Muscles grow more when put under tension while lengthened. I have a mental model explaining why this this might be the case. The load on a muscle under tension is spread out over the cross section of the muscle, perpendicular to the direction of the load. When a muscle is shortened, it...