Methods for assessing and optimizing muscular performance including a controlled activity training protocol

A muscle improvement protocol comprising:

• operably coupling to a computing system one or more surface electromyometry (sEMG) sensors attached to skin of a subject so as to be operably coupled with one or more muscles of the subject while the subject performs a predetermined muscle activity of a controlled activity training protocol, wherein in the controlled activity training protocol the subject maintains substantially a constant sEMG metric and/or metric derivative and/or metric integral by varying muscle activity exertion during the predetermined muscle activity;
• monitoring and/or recording sEMG data of the one or more muscles during the predetermined muscle activity;
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• providing the sEMG data to the subject such that the subject can improve muscle performance for the predetermined muscle activity by using the sEMG data.

A system for performing a muscle improvement protocol comprising:

• one or more surface electromyometry (sEMG) sensor means configured to be attached to skin of a subject so as to be operably coupled with one or more muscles of the subject;
• a computing means configured to be operably coupled to the one or more sEMG sensors;
• the computing means further configured to monitor sEMG data from the one or more sEMG sensor means when the subject performs a predetermined muscle activity of a controlled activity training protocol, wherein in the controlled activity training protocol the subject maintains substantially a constant sEMG metric and/or metric derivative and/or metric integral by varying muscle activity exertion during the predetermined muscle activity;
• the computing means monitoring and/or recording sEMG data of the one or more muscles during the predetermined muscle activity.