New trainees are frequently surprised at how quickly they are able to add resistance and/or repetitions to the movements they are learning, often seeing improvement on a session by session basis. While you might understandably think this is a result of muscular strength increasing it has much more to do with neuromuscular learning. The technical term is motor recruitment. The body is quickly laying down neural pathways allowing an individual to contract more muscle tissue at once and in a more coordinated effort. Advanced trainees become very good at being dialed in like this and can create a higher level of intensity and fatigue in their muscle tissue more quickly. Unfortunately it works in reverse as well, explaining why after a week or two off you feel a little out of synch when you first hit the weights again. And all this time you thought recruitment only had to do with college athletics ;)
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:16:02 +0000
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