Effects of Resistance Exercise Variables on Muscle Adaptation and Physical Performance

Dear Colleagues,

Skeletal muscle is a prerequisite for directed movement of humans and physical performance in sports. Due to its ability to adapt to a wide range of mechanical and metabolic stimuli, exercise provides the fundamental basis for performance enhancement. Resistance exercise is a highly potent method to increase skeletal muscle mass and force generation in humans, a key factor for performance in many disciplines. Research in recent decades has generated a profound knowledge of molecular mechanisms that explain skeletal muscle adaptation towards resistance exercise. Major mechanisms that maintain skeletal muscle proteostasis in mechanically loaded human skeletal muscle, involve molecular networks that control synthesis and degradation of functional proteins within myofibers. However, it is of crucial importance for the athlete and the coach to estimate the effect of varying intensities, volumes, and modes of muscle contractions by resistance exercise on the outcome of myofiber adaptations and resulting muscle performance. For this Special Issue, we encourage international groups of muscle researchers, exercise physiologists, and sports scientists to submit papers that cover the interface between resistance exercise variables and biological muscle adaptations with a link to muscle or exercise performance. The Special Issue aims to further bridge the gap between theory and praxis of muscle adaptation in relation to performance enhancement in sports.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gehlert
Guest Editor

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