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How to Best Optimize Your Muscular Health

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked

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  • Concentric exercise refers to movements where your muscle is shortened, whereas eccentric movement is when the muscles lengthen. Another way to think about it is moving with or against gravity. During the eccentric part of an exercise, you’re resisting the pull of gravity, and during the concentric part you’re moving against gravity

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