Muscles that work like this are called antagonistic pairs. In an antagonistic muscle pair as one muscle contracts the other muscle relaxes or lengthens. The muscle that is contracting is called ...

Have you heard of agonist and antagonist muscle pairings before? This relationship between your muscles refers to opposing muscle groups, working in tandem, and their function to control and ...

All of this research associated with static stretching evaluated performance in the agonist musculature. The co-activity of the antagonist muscles, on the other hand, is also important when an ...

Mounting research confirms that performing supersets can shorten your training time while still boosting muscle size just the ...