Reconsidering exercise selection with surface electromyography: Poor agreement between gluteal muscle electromyography and muscle force amplitude during different hip exercises

Biomechanical data were used to scale a generic full-body musculoskeletal model and calibrate muscle-tendon unit parameters for each participant. [...]when considering variation due to exercise type (e.g. different joint- and muscle-level kinematics and kinetics) and individual participants (e.g. different neurophysiology and data acquisition) within the analysis, the EMG-force relationship was much stronger. [...]EMG may not be an accurate approach for determining exercises to target specific muscles and should not be used as the sole justification for designing training interventions.