Healthline

What Are Concentric Contractions?

A concentric contraction is a type of muscle activation that causes tension on your muscle as it shortens. As your muscle shortens, it generates enough force to move an object. This is the most ...
JSSM

Concentric and Eccentric: Muscle Contraction or Exercise?

Johnny Padulo, Guillaume Laffaye, Karim Chamari. (2013) Concentric and Eccentric: Muscle Contraction or Exercise?. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (12), 608 - 609. This inclusion considers the ...
MARCA

Concentric Training Benefits: Can you build muscle with concentric exercises?

Concentric exercises have the ability to increase the strength of your muscles, but you run the risk of injury when doing these training exercises. There are many type of concentric exercises, all of ...
Frontiers

Increased prefrontal activity and reduced motor cortex activity during imagined eccentric compared to concentric muscle actions

In this study we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine differences in recruited brain regions during the concentric and the eccentric phase of an imagined maximum resistance ...
Frontiers

Metabolic Cost of Activation and Mechanical Efficiency of Mouse Soleus Muscle Fiber Bundles During Repetitive Concentric and Eccentric Contractions

Currently available data on the energetics of isolated muscle preparations are based on bouts of less than 10 muscle contractions, whereas metabolic energy consumption is mostly relevant during steady ...