Understand Muscle Structure

Is it important to understand the structure of our muscles? And if so how could this improve the results of our muscle exercise routine?

One wise thing to do when deciding the muscles exercise technique we are going to adopt is to find out the type of structure a muscle is made of, muscles as we know are formed by either a slow-contract structure or a fast-contract structure, for example a muscle made of high level of slow-contracts structure reacts more favorably to high repetitions, so high level of slow-contracts structured muscles are more adequately trained in the 15 or over repetitions to allow the muscle to be enough time under pressure. Fast-contracts structured muscles are more adequately trained in the 6 to 12 repetitions.

So how do you decide your muscle structure for any given muscle? By determining the number of times you can lift a sub-maximal weight is one way to find out the structure or a muscle, for example if two people lift the same weight and one can lift it 5 times while the other one can lift it 15 times, the person who has lifted the weight 5 times has a fast-structured muscle while the other has a slow structure muscle, this type of test is particularly true for untrained or beginners folks. …show more content…
Before deciding how many repetitions someone should perform it is important to understand the muscle structure, these factors are particularly important when deciding and designing a gym routine, having said that and discussed the importance of muscle structure related to repetition we now have to understand how sets work and how to decide on the correct amount of