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J Appl Physiol 74: 2740-2744, 1993;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 74, Issue 6 2740-2744, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Muscle-fiber pennation angles are greater in hypertrophied than in normal muscles

Y. Kawakami, T. Abe and T. Fukunaga
Department of Sports Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Muscle-fiber pennation angles were measured in vivo with the use of ultrasonography to investigate the relationship between fiber pennation and muscle size for 32 male subjects (from untrained subjects to highly trained bodybuilders). From the image of a B-mode ultrasonogram, fiber pennation angles and thickness of triceps brachii were determined, the former as angles between echoes from the interspaces of fascicles and from the aponeurosis of long and medial heads of triceps and the latter as the distance between the fat-muscle and muscle-bone interfaces. The pennation angles were in the range of 15 and 53 degrees for the long head and 9 to 26 degrees for the medial head, which were similar to or greater than the published and the present data on human cadavers. Significant differences were observed between normal subjects and bodybuilders in muscle thickness and pennation angles (P < 0.01), and there were significant correlations between muscle thickness and pennation angles for both long (r = 0.884) and medial (r = 0.833) heads of triceps, suggesting that muscle hypertrophy involves an increase in fiber pennation angles.


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