Explain how muscle fiber recruitment works in generating increased amounts of force

What will be an ideal response?


Fiber recruitment is the process of involving more muscle fibers to increase muscular force. The lighter the weight lifted, the fewer the number of fibers needed to generate sufficient force.

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