One study has looked at the “overshoot phenomenon” in a professional team sport setting, but rather than observing changes in muscle fibre type, performance based variables were implemented [3]. Part 1 Part 2 Seven professional rugby league players from a National
As explained in Part 1, an “overshoot” occurs when a taper or detraining from resistance training takes place with the intent of increasing the number of Type IIx muscle fibres. (Refer to part 1 for explanations of different muscle fibre types).
There are only a few papers to date showing the “overshoot phenomenon” [1, 2] and only one paper done using professional athletes within a season [3]. Explained very simply, an “overshoot” occurs when a taper or detraining from resistance training
