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  2. Pseudoathletic appearance - Wikipedia

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    Calf muscle hypertrophy [107] Muscle biopsy showed unspecified myopathic changes, many vacuoles between myofibrils. EMG showed no myopathic discharges. Myoedema response in whole body. [107] [108] Strongman syndrome (Muscle hypertrophy syndrome, myalgic [10]) General Childhood-onset Muscle hypertrophy [109] [110] Hypertrophia musculorum vera

  3. High-intensity training - Wikipedia

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    The recommended repetition ranges vary, with most being from as low as 3-5 to as high as 15-20. Lower repetition ranges are often recommended for upper body exercises, while higher repetition ranges are often recommended for the lower body, lower back, abs, and neck.

  4. Calisthenics - Wikipedia

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    A back lever is performed by lowering from an inverted hang from rings or bar, until the gymnast's body is parallel to the ground and facing towards the floor. Handstand; Practicing the wall walk, an exercise for achieving handstands A handstand is the act of supporting the body in a stable, inverted vertical position by balancing on the hands.

  5. How to get a full-body workout at home without any equipment

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    On your knees, lower the right hand down to the ground to the right of your body; making sure the right shoulder stays over the right wrist. Then extend the left leg out as high as your hip.

  6. Muscle hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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    Strength training (resistance training) causes neural and muscular adaptations which increase the capacity of an athlete to exert force through voluntary muscular contraction: After an initial period of neuro-muscular adaptation, the muscle tissue expands by creating sarcomeres (contractile elements) and increasing non-contractile elements like sarcoplasmic fluid.

  7. Strength training - Wikipedia

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    As of 2015, no articles existed on the effects of warm-up for upper body injury prevention. [10] For the lower limbs, several programs significantly reduce injuries in sports and military training, but no universal injury prevention program has emerged, and it is unclear if warm-ups designed for these areas will also be applicable to strength ...

  8. Training to failure - Wikipedia

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    When the athlete has reached initial failure (i.e. fails to perform a further repetition), rather than ending the current set, the exercise can be continued by making the exercise easier (switching to another similar exercise e.g. pull-ups to chin-ups, switching to another (correct) form of the same exercise, switching to lower weight) or by recruiting help (from a spotting partner or by ...

  9. Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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    Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy is a rare genetic condition characterized by reduced body fat and increased skeletal muscle size. [1] Affected individuals have up to twice the usual amount of muscle mass in their bodies, but increases in muscle strength are not usually congruent. [ 2 ]