defind NEROMUSCULAR ?

**tluck** · 12-28-2011, 08:02 PM

I have been back at liftin for about 10 weeks after a year layoff. Gains was coming back well. I started at 16o and to day at 183lbs after 6 to 7 weeks of crankin up my cals and protien and h-drol intake....I was told that gains rapid like that was related to the word NEROMUSCULAR ? I was wondering want it means and what NERUMUSCULAR is.

**Ted Shred** · 12-28-2011, 08:11 PM

Neuromuscular: Pertaining to both nerves and muscles, as in neuromuscular blockade by an anesthetic agent, the neuromuscular junction (the meeting place of a nerve and a muscle fiber), and neuromuscular transmission (the transfer of "information" from the nerve to the muscle).

Neuromuscular definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms easily defined on MedTerms

As opposed to the jacked Roman dude with the fiddle...

**Cork** · 12-29-2011, 08:09 AM

No dictionaries in Kentucky?

**poohiron** · 01-01-2012, 03:09 PM

Most trainees will adapt at a rapid pace because of motor learning. An example is considering an elite athlete. This athlete can has higher neuromuscular efficiency meaning he/she can innervate more motor units when needed for a lift. Rate coding, summation, and motor unit recruitment all play into this. When a lifter first starts, he/she is neuromuscularly inefficient. For the first 6 months to a year the CNS adapts quickly to innervate more and more motor units. In effect the gains are rapid and consistent. As the lifter advances this process slows and morphological changes then preceed strength gains unless the lifter focuses on pure strength. The former must focus on increasing motor recruitment and maximize rate coding to increase total motor unit output.

**pebble** · 01-01-2012, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by poohiron

Most trainees will adapt at a rapid pace because of motor learning. An example is considering an elite athlete. This athlete can has higher neuromuscular efficiency meaning he/she can innervate more motor units when needed for a lift. Rate coding, summation, and motor unit recruitment all play into this. When a lifter first starts, he/she is neuromuscularly inefficient. For the first 6 months to a year the CNS adapts quickly to innervate more and more motor units. In effect the gains are rapid and consistent. As the lifter advances this process slows and morphological changes then preceed strength gains unless the lifter focuses on pure strength. The former must focus on increasing motor recruitment and maximize rate coding to increase total motor unit output.

Summation (temporal/spatial) essentially is rate coding (frequency/intensity of APs) ... but other that this guy is pretty on point.

Good post.

**poohiron** · 01-01-2012, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by pebble

Summation (temporal/spatial) essentially is rate coding (frequency/intensity of APs) ... but other that this guy is pretty on point.

Good post.

Thanks man. Sometimes I type way too fast... Hehe

**TonyMack** · 01-01-2012, 05:52 PM

Nero was a dumb Italian, and I doubt he was very muscular.

**exphys88** · 01-02-2012, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by poohiron

Most trainees will adapt at a rapid pace because of motor learning. An example is considering an elite athlete. This athlete can has higher neuromuscular efficiency meaning he/she can innervate more motor units when needed for a lift. Rate coding, summation, and motor unit recruitment all play into this. When a lifter first starts, he/she is neuromuscularly inefficient. For the first 6 months to a year the CNS adapts quickly to innervate more and more motor units. In effect the gains are rapid and consistent. As the lifter advances this process slows and morphological changes then preceed strength gains unless the lifter focuses on pure strength. The former must focus on increasing motor recruitment and maximize rate coding to increase total motor unit output.

well said, somebody paid attention in exercise physiology class.

**CowPimp** · 01-04-2012, 10:02 AM

The word technically means, "pertaining to nerves and muscles."

What you are being told is true. The "muscle memory" people often reference when describing the rapid improvement in performance when returning to an activity refers to training of your nervous system. Neural pathways strengthen with use, and weaken with lack of use. You are strengthening neural pathways that have weakened over time from disuse.

I'll give you an analogy that I liked from a neuroscience text. Imagine skiing down a hill. After a lot of people follow the same path, it creates a furrow in the snow leading down the hill. The more you ride down this path, the more the furrow deepens. It becomes "easier" to utilize this path. When you avoid an activity for long enough, new snow starts to fill in the furrow and even it out with the rest of the snow on the mountain. Returning to this activity deepens the furrow once again. Deepening the furrow is analogous to strengthening a neural pathway, whereas allowing the furrow to be filled in is analogous to detraining. It's easier to start deepening that pathway if there is still a remnant of that pathway from previous bouts of training.

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