A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
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Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#2I can only think of one activity where tongue endurance is important, and I guess it's good that runners come out ahead in that department.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#3Jokes aside, this is actually a very interesting study. We all know that physical characteristics are developed specifically by different activities (endurance for runners, strength for weightlifters). But I think most people would think this is due to local effects at the level of the muscle or specific neural circuits for different movements. This study suggests that a more general physical adaptation is at play, since the tongue isn't involved in running or weightlifting.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#4I can only think of one activity where tongue endurance is important, and I guess it's good that runners come out ahead in that department.
Actually, the weightlifters were better in some regards.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#5Interesting results. Just last night I read an article about training for rock climbing that suggested cutting back on intensive cardio routines outside of climbing if you're having trouble making strength gains, and I went to sleep last night wondering how much merit there is to the claim, since I'm both a cyclist and a climber.
Anecdotally, when cycling in the city it's usually shorter rides with high intensity hill climbs and sprints, but after an 18 hour, 300km ride in the country last summer, it took me weeks to get that climbing/sprinting power back, that one big ride made me substantially weaker.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#6I can only think of one activity where tongue endurance is important, and I guess it's good that runners come out ahead in that department.
Actually, the weightlifters were better in some regards.
> Finally, TE [tongue endurance] was overall significantly greater in runners than in weightlifters (P = 0.001).
I'm assuming you're not trying to move a heavy weight, so the runners probably take an advantage.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#7I can only think of one activity where tongue endurance is important, and I guess it's good that runners come out ahead in that department.
Actually, the weightlifters were better in some regards.
Weightlifters had greater tongue strength, for which I can't think of a benefit, but runners had greater endurance.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#8Jokes aside, this is actually a very interesting study. We all know that physical characteristics are developed specifically by different activities (endurance for runners, strength for weightlifters). But I think most people would think this is due to local effects at the level of the muscle or specific neural circuits for different movements. This study suggests that a more general physical adaptation is at play, s…
Yeah, this is neat. I suppose it does make sense - running is going to have an effect on the whole cardiovascular system, the legs being just a part of that, and weightlifting will affect the whole of the CNS's ability to recruit muscle fibers, so it does stand to reason their would be systemic changes. The body becomes better in totality at what it practices, and it's neat to see evidence of this.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#9Jokes aside, this is actually a very interesting study. We all know that physical characteristics are developed specifically by different activities (endurance for runners, strength for weightlifters). But I think most people would think this is due to local effects at the level of the muscle or specific neural circuits for different movements. This study suggests that a more general physical adaptation is at play, s…
It's not entirely true that the tongue isn't involved, because of breathing patterns. If differential tongue strength/endurance is just an incidental effect of different breathing patterns, I'm not sure there's much further to go with this.
Re: A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, the weightlifters were better in some regards.
Weightlifters had greater tongue strength , for which I can't think of a benefit, but runners had greater endurance.
Strength is actually very important if you read Taoist sexual kung fu practices, they even had exercises for tongue strength specifically.