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acute muscle soreness
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soreness or pain felt during a immediately after an exercise bout.
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atrophy
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loss of size or mass of body tissue such as muscle atrophy with disuse.
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autogenic inhibition
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reflex inhibition of a motor neuron in response to excessive tension in the muscle fibers in supplies as monitored by the Golgi tendon organs.
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chronic hypertrophy
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an increase in muscle size that results from repeated long term resistance training.
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delayed onset muscle soreness
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muscle soreness that develops a day or two after a heavy bout of exercise and that is associated with actual injury within the muscle.
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exercise associated muscle cramps
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painful prolonged contractions of muscles that accompany or result from muscle contractions.
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fiber hyperplasia
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an increase in the number of muscle fibers.
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fiber hypertrophy
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an increase in the size of existing individual muscle fibers.
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resistance training
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training designed to increase strength power and muscular endurance.
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transient hypertrophy
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the "pumping up" of muscle that happens during a single exercise about resulting mainly from fluid accumulation in the interstitial and intracellular spaces of the muscle.
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