About the research
Do you have a lot of fast or rather slow muscle fibers? You may not know, but for an athlete this is important. After all, the muscle fiber type determines how you train best to build more muscle, among other things. But there is one big problem, about 15 centimeters in size to be precise: that's how long the needle, used to remove a piece of muscle to find out someone's muscle fiber type, is. Sounds painful and it is. That's why Freek Van de Casteele (UGent - FWO) is looking for new, reliable, and painless methods to determine the muscle fiber type.
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