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Kawama Lab
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A lab that investigates how muscles change in response to strength training.
AboutAbout the lab
How do muscles change when you train?
The Kawama Lab specializes in training science and biomechanics.
The lab investigates how muscles change through strength training.
It measures mechanical characteristics of muscle, such as stiffness, shape, and force-producing properties.
The lab is also conducting research on muscles such as the hamstrings, which are prone to strains.
Key terms
- Biomechanics
- The study of measuring and explaining body movement and tissue properties using the principles of mechanics
- Hamstrings
- A collective name for the muscles at the back of the thigh, which are prone to strains
- Muscle adaptation
- The process by which the properties and size of muscle change in response to stimuli such as training
NewsLab news
Lecturer Kawama and colleagues report that strength training can also make muscles softer
Research by Lecturer Kawama and colleagues received the Young Investigator Encouragement Award at the conference of the Japan Society of Training Science
Research by Lecturer Kawama and colleagues received the Young Investigators Award at the European College of Sport Science
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates how muscles adapt to strength training, focusing on their mechanical properties. In particular, it measures changes in the stiffness and structure of the hamstrings.
*Illustrative imageHow Does Muscle Stiffness Change with Training?
How do the stiffness and shape of the hamstrings, the muscles at the back of the thigh, change when they are trained with exercises that produce force while the muscle lengthens, or with stretching? The lab measures the changes that occur during training and after training stops.
*Illustrative imageIndividual Differences in Muscle Softness
Even among young people of the same age, there are large individual differences in how soft the muscles are. The lab investigates which aspects of thigh muscle structure and composition produce these differences, and also explores how muscle fiber types relate to the changes in muscle that occur when training stops.
MembersFaculty
- LecturerRaki Kawama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Pen coil spring 20180405” Santeri Viinamäki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- How Does Muscle Stiffness Change with Training?: “Hamstring stretching SMR personal training” PTPioneer / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Individual Differences in Muscle Softness: “Woman stretching her hamstrings and glutes on a log in nature” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kawakami Lab): “Gastrocnemius muscle - posterior view” Polygon data were generated by Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) / CC BY-SA 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Related lab (Yanai Lab): “Eadweard Muybridge - Athletes. Walking High Leap (sepia)” Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Miyamoto Lab): “Tendon - intermed mag” Nephron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Okada Lab): “Turner Hall Milwaukee weights room” James Steakley / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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