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Originally Posted by Enthalpic
You need to fatigue the fast twitch muscle first to somewhat disrupt the normal muscle fiber recruitment patterns to favor type II recruitment. Then follow that with a constant tension and slow contractions of the type II fibers.
I've always suspected that this is the idea behind muscle tension intervals. But, while they are effective, I doubt that they are difficult enough to cause hyperplasia. Maybe if you could do like a couple repeats of Alpe d'Huez at 40 cadence . . .
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