"Inner Chest", "Upper Abs", "Biceps Peak" & Co!? Study Finds Proximal and Distal Part of the Triceps Grow Independently and According to Training Stimulus.
Image 1: Training for the peak, could it be possible, after all? (image from provitamin.in ) You probably have read my repeated notes on the issue of training individual muscles fibers in complete isolation in the 7-part SuppVersity EMG-Series . I guess in view of the results of a very recent study from the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the Waseda University in Japan ( Wakahara. 2011 ), it might be that I will have to revise my statement. It could in fact be that you can train a specific part of a muscle fiber - if not individually, then at least predominantly. Despite the fact that our movements are always orchestrated by the interplay of a whole host of muscle-groups and -fibers, Wakahara et al.'s results suggest that it may even be possible to target specific parts of individual fibers by selecting the correct exercises . In other words, instead of doing incline bench presses for the upper chest, you could, as many trainers recommend it for years do them with a narro...