Ingram Fry

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How can the tongue push?

The biomechanics consensus is that muscles can only pull. Muscles do not push but use bones to transfer force (which might result in pushing). Stop me when I say something inaccurate. The tongue...

29 May 2025 2,458 4 View

Can sarcomeres in series have different levels of activation?

First question is about innervation. Is there only one nerve per fibre (sarcomere series)? If so any resistance training ought to equilabrate stress along the sarcomere series, thus it ought to...

25 March 2025 7,635 1 View

Is strength/co-ordination centralized or decentralized?

Some experiments are looking at the effect of exercises on CSA in different regions of the same muscle. If the muscle is stimulated by the CNS activating series of sarcomeres, then I would expect...

15 March 2025 4,473 1 View

Why does the chest expand when we breath?

I published the article below showing the pectorals can push the arm across as well as pull it toward the chest (Abduct and Adduct). The Role of Compressive Force in the Movement of the...

24 April 2024 2,812 3 View

Has anyone identified or quantified the way a muscle acts as its own antagonist?

Text books will tell you that your latisimus dorsi adducts the arm. But if the Lats are soft and squished due to the position of the arm, tensing the Lats will cause abduction from about the 6...

06 October 2023 7,339 2 View

Has the media misrepresented your research?

I think the media often exaggerates the importance of a study, or amplifies the bias/interpretation of the scientist. Often reporting interpretations as fact. Thus scientists don't always have a...

07 September 2021 7,290 0 View

Obese twice as likely to die, due to age?

I calculated that a randomly selected US obese population is about twice as likely to die, as a randomly selected US Non Obese population simply because they are older, as people tend to increase...

07 June 2021 5,040 4 View

What is the evidence high vegetable consumption is good for you?

It seems to be taken for granted that high fruit and vegetable consumption is good for you, what is the underlying observational evidence? I am aware that vitamins exist, but it is hard to...

05 June 2021 7,331 14 View

Does turmeric shorten telomeres?

I have read that turmeric inhibits telomerase. I have also heard telomerase helps repair telomeres. Does this mean turmeric stops telomeres repairing or have I heard wrong?

22 September 2018 7,293 11 View

Does passive energy conservation in eccentric contraction explain increased force output in eccentric contraction?

I've always thought of it this way but recently read that there is not an explanation. Imagine I am climbing up a ladder, every time I release my grip, I have to use my own energy to get to the...

01 January 1970 7,801 0 View