Concentric contractions are movements that cause your muscles to shorten when generating force. In weight training, a bicep curl is an easy-to-recognize concentric movement. Learn concentric ...

A concentric contraction is a type of muscle activation that causes tension on your muscle as it shortens. For example, when doing a sit-up, your muscle shortens and generates enough force to ...

This week, I'll talk a little about how contraction time works, and how to maximize it. Plus, I will introduce an exercise that demonstrates this concept very well.

As an example of concentric contraction, imagine the curling action of a bicep curl. The eccentric motion would be the uncurling phase of the exercise. Mind-muscle connection benefits: injury ...

During an exercise, when your muscles are activated, they can either contract while shortening (a concentric contraction), lengthening (an eccentric contraction), or without changing in length (an ...

Concentric contractions are the foundation of most strength exercises. You need to be able to move a load to build strength, and the concentric phase is where that effort happens, Chang says.

A concentric contraction occurs when the muscle length decreases during contraction - for example, the contraction phase of a bicep curl, where the force (or torque, to be more technically correct) is ...

In practice, physical therapists use a three main muscle contraction types (concentric, eccentric, and isometric) to improve a patient’s quality of movement.

‘Effect of daily 3-s maximum voluntary isometric, concentric or eccentric contraction on elbow flexor strength’ was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.