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Title: Changes in Muscular Activity in Different Stable and Unstable Conditions on Aquatic Platforms
Authors: Conceição, Ana
Fernandes, Orlando
Baia, Miguel
Gonçalves, Bruno
Batalha, Nuno
Keywords: squat exercises
plank exercises
electromyography
aquatic platforms
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Biology
Abstract: The present study aimed to analyse and compare the muscle activity of twelve participants (seven men and five women) (age 20.1 0.9 years; height 170.5 10 cm; body mass: 64.86 8.3 kg) in two exercises, each with two variants: squat (dynamic and static) and plank (hands and elbows) in a stable environment on land and an unstable environment on an aquatic platform. The erector spinae, biceps femoris, rectus femoris, external oblique, and rectus abdominis muscles were evaluated using surface electromyography. The dynamic squat increases the recruitment of the biceps femoris and external oblique, while the static squat demands greater activation of the rectus femoris. The elbow plank exercise increases the recruitment of erector spinae muscles, and the hand plank exercise increases the recruitment of the erector spinae and external oblique. In conclusion, performing exercises in unstable conditions on an aquatic platform slightly increases muscle recruitment.
URI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ biology11111643s
http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34203
Type: article
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