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The Influence of Resistance Training Experience on the Efficacy of Motor Imagery for Acutely Increasing Corticospinal Excitability
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11/25/2023
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Both motor imagery and resistance¿training enhance motor function and corticospinal excitability. We tested the hypothesis that young participants with significant resistance¿training experience would show heightened corticospinal excitability during a single session of motor imagery training. Fifty-six participants (mean ¿ SD age = 22 ¿ 2 years) were divided into resistance¿trained and untrained groups. Forty-one upper-body resistance trained (21 males, 20 females; mean ¿ SD relative one repetition maximum bench press = 0.922 ¿ 0.317 kg/kg) and 15 untrained (4 males, 11 females; mean ¿ SD relative one repetition maximum bench press = 0.566 ¿ 0.175 kg/kg) participants visited the laboratory on three separate occasions. The first visit served as the familiarization session. During visits 2 and 3, participants engaged in a hand/wrist motor imagery protocol or rested quietly (control condition) in a randomized order. Before and after the interventions, single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the motor cortex was used to measure resting motor¿evoked potential amplitude of the first dorsal interosseous muscle. Our main finding was that motor imagery acutely increased corticospinal excitability by ~64% (marginal means pre = 784.1 ¿V, post = 1246.6 ¿V; p < 0.001, d = 0.487). However, there was no evidence that the increase in corticospinal excitability was influenced by resistance¿training experience. We suspect that our results may have been influenced by the specific nature of the motor imagery task. Our findings have important implications for motor imagery prescription and suggest that motor imagery training may be equally beneficial for both resistance¿trained and untrained populations. This study was prospectively registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT03889548).
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Kinesiology
Burnett School of Medicine
Burnett School of Medicine