Thread: Muscle Fiber Types - Nature or Nurture?
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Old 03-25-23 | 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by terrymorse
This paper, Improved muscular efficiency displayed as Tour de France champion matures, estimates that Armstrong’s Type I muscle went from 60% to 80% over 7 years of training, which produced an 8% improvement in muscle efficiency.

Further evidence that one can develop Type I muscle through training.
And during that period of time, Armstrong, as well as many others in the UCI World Tour pro peloton, were using drugs including but not limited to EPO, testosterone and anabolic steroids. I give that article a meh. I am not saying that Type I is not trainable.
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