{"id":8282,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/isometric_contraction\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:01","slug":"isometric_contraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/isometric_contraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Isometric contraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voluntary generation of skeletal muscle tension without muscle shortening or any changes in joint angle. &nbsp;This type of contraction occurs when &nbsp;carrying an object in front of the body with its weight pulling the arms downwards. &nbsp;Gripping a tennis racket is another example. &nbsp;The length of the muscle at the point of contraction determines the amount of force a muscle is able to produce during an isotonic contraction. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"force\">Force<\/a>, <a href=\"isotonic_contraction\">Isotonic contraction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voluntary generation of skeletal muscle tension without muscle shortening or any changes in joint angle. &nbsp;This type of contraction occurs when &nbsp;carrying an object in front of the body with its weight pulling the arms downwards. &nbsp;Gripping a tennis racket is another example. &nbsp;The length of the muscle at the point of contraction determines the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/isometric_contraction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isometric contraction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}