What Happens to Tendons When You Train? Stiffness Rose by a Pooled SMD of 0.70, More Through Material Than Size Changes, and Loading Intensity Mattered While Contraction Type Did Not
Oct 25
4 min read
Muscle gets the attention because it is visible. Tendon gets attention only when it hurts. Yet the tendon is the part of the chain that decides whether a stronger muscle can actually deliver its force to the bone, and it adapts on its own rules: slower, more selective about load, and in ways that have only been measurable in living humans for about two decades.
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