Consider this.... wrote:
disgraceful_admin wrote:Only thing recoiling is your microscopic intellect.
Here are some similar striations ...
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4306503&d=1333469232Clearly a tribal surgical procedure...
The pic you linked are not striations, you booby, those are fasicles, for which that is the normal orientation in the vastus lateralis and vastus medialis in your muscle bound example. If you had any clue whatsoever, however, the rectus femoris, being a bipennate muscle, has two rows of fasicles running in diagonal directions, which is not what Kipchoge is displaying. Another moran!
I know what sarcomeres, striations, and fascicles are. Bodybuilders and 99.9% of the public think "striations" when they see those features in muscles, to the point that it's the correct term in everyday vernacular.
It's really confusing with Kipchoge. Maybe he has some unique features. Maybe his rectus femoris has an attachment/origin that's slightly displaced from the usual anatomy, through training or genetics, so that one of the "heads" - what's the right term, it's bipennate? - demonstrates horizontal fascicles.
I also saw this in the slowmo vid during the race. If we can "prove" that it's elastic recoil of the muscle and fascia, that would be pretty cool.