• Muscle Tissue Types
    • Skeletal Muscle
      • Fusiform
      • Quadrate
      • Triangular
      • Longitudinal
      • Unipennate
      • Bipennate
      • Multipennate
    • Smooth Muscle
    • Cardiac Muscle
  • Skeletal Muscle Structure
    • Epimysium – outer encasement of muscle
    • Perimysium – encases fibers inside epimysium
    • Endomysium – encases individual fibers
  • Cell
    • Myocyte – individual muscle fiber
    • Motor Unit – consists of one motor neuron, its axon, and the muscle fiber it innervates or stimulates to action
    • Myofibrils
      • Actin
      • Myosin
      • Sarcomeres
        • Z-line
        • I-band
        • A-band
        • H-zone
        • M-line
      • Sliding filament theory
      • Sarcoplasmic reticulum
      • Hypertrophic protein synthesis
        • Atrophy
    • Mitochondria
      • Cell respiration
      • Sarcolemma
      • Sarcoplasm
      • ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
  • Contraction Types, Overloads, & Force Delivery
    • Dynamic Constant External Resistance (DCER)
    • Dynamic Variable External Resistance (DVER)
    • Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS)
  • Muscle Fiber Types
    • Red, slow twitch
    • Red, fast twitch
    • White, fast twitch
  • Motor Unit Recruitment
    • Immediate recruitment
    • Depleting energy recruitment
    • Contractile speed recruitment
    • Proprioceptive Neural Facilitation (PNF stretching)
    • Nervous System & Central Nervous System
      • Golgi Tendon Organs (GTO)
    • “The Pump”
    • Contractile Failure
      • Cellular Energy Depletion
      • Offsetting Energy Depletion
        • Myofibril failure
        • Intermediate failure
        • Mitochondrial failure
  • Resistance Exercise & Weight Management
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