Before revision: This allows for their strength to be expressed quickly, which means greater power generation.Chu, Donald, ‘The Muscular System’, in Explosive Power and Strength, Human Kinetics:Leeds, 1996, p.10 In the context of rock climbing, and an isometric exercise preceding a plyometric one, Steve Maisch considers that one of the training goals of complex training is to operate at a level of fatigue thereby encouraging the body to learn to recruit from a wider range of muscle fibres in order to be able to apply the appropriate power.
After revision: regard to the apparent conversion of type I to type II fibres through training, leading experts attest that this is in actual fact the alteration of the muscle fibres size and ability to produce force; the percentage of fibres that are type I or type II does not change:InThis allows for their strength to be expressed quickly, which means greater power generation.Chu, Donald, ‘The Muscular System’, in Explosive Power and Strength, Human Kinetics:Leeds, 1996, p.10 In the context of rock climbing, and an isometric exercise preceding a plyometric one, Steve Maisch considers that one of the training goals of complex training is to operate at a level of fatigue thereby encouraging the body to learn to recruit from a wider range of muscle fibres in order to be able to apply the appropriate power.