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ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Weak Association Between Vastus Lateralis Muscle Fiber Composition and Fascicle Length in Young Untrained Females.

Thomas Mpampoulis, Spyridon Methenitis, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Giorgos Papadimas, Polyxeni Spiliopoulou, Angeliki-Nikoletta Stasinaki, Gregory C Bogdanis, Giorgos Karampatsos, Gerasimos Terzis

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Article in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Thomas MpampoulisSports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.
Spyridon MethenitisSports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4370-1395
Constantinos PapadopoulosA' Neurology Clinic, Aiginition Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Giorgos PapadimasA' Neurology Clinic, Aiginition Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Polyxeni SpiliopoulouSports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4951-3563
Angeliki-Nikoletta StasinakiSports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.
Gregory C BogdanisSports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3382-0438
Giorgos KarampatsosSports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4333-1948
Gerasimos TerzisSports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0049-5395

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between vastus lateralis muscle fiber length and fiber type composition in individuals with minimal exposure to systematic resistance/power training. In sixty female physical education students (age: 21.03 ± 2.1 years, body weight: 59.8 ± 9.7 kg, body height: 166.2 ± 6.5 cm), with no experience in systematic training, lean body mass, VL muscle architecture and fiber composition type, countermovement jumping (CMJ) performance, and isometric leg press rate of force development were evaluated. Data were analyzed for all participants, as well as two equally numbered groups assigned according to their maximum countermovement jumping power (High-Power or Low-Power group). Significant but low correlations were found between type II muscle fiber percentage and fascicle length (N = 60,

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fiber type compositionmuscle architecturemuscle powerrate of force development

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