Methods for assessing and optimizing muscular performance including a frequency based, amplitude adjusted root mean square protocol

A muscle assessment protocol comprising:

• a computing system communicating with 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 a subject;
• the one or more sEMG sensors being configured to be operably coupled to the computing system while a subject performs a predetermined muscle activity of an amplitude-adjusted root mean square protocol, wherein the frequency based, amplitude-adjusted root mean square protocol includes displaying sEMG data that is adjusted to compensate for muscle fatigue of the one or more muscles;
• 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 assessment 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;
• computing means configured to be operably coupled the one or more sEMG sensor means;
• the computing means further configured to display sEMG data that is adjusted to compensate for muscle fatigue of the one or more muscles when the subject performs a predetermined muscle activity of an amplitude-adjusted root mean square protocol;
• the computing means further configured to monitor and/or record sEMG data of the one or more muscles during the predetermined muscle activity.