Ch. 13 Flashcards
What is the principle of specificity?
Refers to the effect that exercise training is specific to the muscles involved in that activity, the fiber types recruited, the principal energy system involved, the velocity of contraction, and type of muscle contraction
What is maximal oxygen uptake?
Measure of the maximal capacity of the body to transport and use oxygen during dynamic exercise using large muscle groups
What are the three principles of training?
- Overload
- Specificity
- Reversibility
What is overload?
Principle that refers to the fact that an organ system or tissue must be exercised at a level beyond which it is accustomed in order to achieve a training adaptation
What is the principle of reversibility?
Refers to the fact that the fitness gains by exercising at an overload are quickly lost when training is stopped and overload is removed
What are typical variables that constitute the overload?
- intensity, duration, and frequency of exercise
If a muscle is engaged in endurance exercise training, what are the primary adaptations?
- increase in capillaries and mitochondria volume which increases the capacity of the muscle to produce energy aerobically
If muscle is engaged in heavy resistance training, what are the primary adaptations?
- increase in quantity of contractile proteins
Extremely high VO2 max values possessed by elite female and male endurance athletes are the genetic gift of what?
- large cardiovascular capacity
- high % of slow muscle fibers
About 50% of individuals VO2 max is determined by
- genetics along with environmental influences
Endurance training programs that increase VO2 Max commonly involve?
Also what % intensity is it at?
- continuous dynamic exercise using large muscle mass (running, cycling) for 20-60 mins per session
- 3 or more times per week @ intensity >50% VO2 max
It. Is estimated that the heritability of training gains in VO2 max is approximately what %?
47%
In addition to genetic factors, what other 2 factors of endurance training have an important impact on the magnitude in training induced changes in VO2 max
Intensity and duration
The large increase in VO2 max with the 10 week training program was due to what?
Higher intensity, frequency, and duration of training
Endurance training programs increase that VO2 max involve
- Large muscle mass in continuous activity for 20-60 mins per session
- 3 or more times a week
- intensity of 50-85% VO2 max
What 2 activities increase VO2
Endurance training programs and high intensity interval training
The largest training induced increases in VO2 max occur in those who are genetically gifted and referred to as what?
High responders
What is the calculation of oxygen consumption via fick’s equation?
- VO2 max = maximal cardiac output x (maximal aVO2 difference)
- product of systemic blood flow (cardiac output) and systemic oxygen extraction (arteriovenous oxygen difference)
What is A-VO2 difference?
A measure of how much oxygen is removed from arterial blood and used by tissues
Research reveals that in UNTRAINED subjects, relatively short duration of endurance training increases what?
- VO2 max and maximal cardiac output but does NOT increase aVO2 difference
Studies review that a longer duration of training (32 months or more) increases VO2 max by increasing?
- maximal cardiac output
- maximal a-VO2 difference
Following both short and long duration of endurance training, exercise induced increase in maximal cardiac output is ENTIRELY due to
- increases in stroke volume because maximal heart rate remains constant or slightly decreases
What is stroke volume?
- amount of blood ejected from the heart with each beat and is equal to the difference between EDV and ESV
Increase in resting stroke volume in endurance trained athletes is due to
Increased EDV at rest that results from increased stretch of myocardium because of the increased ventricular filling time associated with slower resting heart rate (bradycardia) that occurs following endurance training
What three factors can increase stroke volume?
- Increase in EDV (preload)
- Increased cardiac contractility
- Decrease in total peripheral resistance (after load)
3 factors that increases EDV
- Plasma volume increases
- Increase filling time and venous return
- Increase ventricular volume
Cardiac contractility refers to what?
- strength of cardiac muscle contraction when fiber length (EDV), afterload (peripheral resistance), and heart rate remain constant
Afterload refers to what?
Peripheral resistance against which the ventricle is contracting as it tries to push blood into the aorta
All training induced increases in maximal cardiac output must come from what?
Increases in stroke volume