Reddit mentions of Science and Practice of Strength Training

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1. Zatsiorsky, V., Kraemer, W. Science and Practice of Strength Training. Champagne: Human Kinetics, 2006.
   Defines the terms absolute strength (max force our muscles, bones and tenodns can withstand), maximum strength (maximum force our muscles can produce), and the somewhere in between (~92% absolute strength - where all muscle fibers act as a unit)
   
2. Walker, A. "The Strength of Great Apes and the Speed of Humans." Current Anthropology. 1 Apr. 2009, Volume 50, Number 2: 229-234.
   > "There is also the upstream control of motor neurons to consider. There are well‐known cases of “hysterical strength,” where people suffering seizures exhibit considerably more muscle power than normal. There are also many anecdotes about people in very stressful situations being able to do things that would normally be considered impossible—lifting cars off trapped people, for instance. Add to this the effect of severe electric shock, where people are often thrown violently by their own extreme muscle contraction, and it is clear that we do not contract all our muscle fibers at once. So there might be a degree of cerebral inhibition in people that prevents them from damaging their muscular system that is not present, or not present to the same degree, in great apes. I do not know of any experimental evidence to support or refute this idea, although cortical inhibition of motor impulses has been experimentally demonstrated in animal models and with magnetic inhibition in people."
   
   
3. Hysterical Strength
   > "Hysterical strength can result in torn muscles and damaged joints. This is why, in addition to high lactic acid production, the body limits the number of muscle fibers the human body uses"