Healthy Muscle Habits · Muscles
Most muscle injuries happen while the muscle is lengthening under load.
A pulled muscle is exactly what it sounds like: fibres torn by force beyond what they could take. And the moment it usually happens isn't the moment you'd guess — it's while the muscle is being stretched under load, not while it's shortening.
There's more: most muscle injuries happen while the muscle is lengthening under load. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.
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