The Influence of Resistance Training Experience on the Efficacy of Motor Imagery for Acutely Increasing Corticospinal Excitability.

ABSTRACT: Both motor imagery and resistance-training enhance motor function and corticospinal excitability. We tested the hypothesis that young participants with significant resistance-training experience would show heightened corticospinal excitability during a single session of motor imagery training. Fifty-six participants (mean ± SD age = 22 ± 2 years) were divided into resistance-trained and untrained groups. Forty-one upper-body resistance trained (21 males, 20 females; mean ± SD relative one repetition maximum bench press = 0.922 ± 0.317 kg/kg) and 15 untrained (4 males, 11 females; mean ± SD relative one repetition maximum bench press = 0.566 ± 0.175 kg/kg) participants visited the laboratory on three separate occasions. The first visit served as the familiarization session. During visits 2

SUBMITTER: Parsowith EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10742069 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature