Chapter 5 Flashcards
What are the nervous system’s adaptations to anaerobic training?
Increased agonist recruitment, neuronal firing rates, and improved synchronization of neuron firing. Also inhibition of GTO
What happens at the motor cortex during challenging efforts?
Increased activity
What is the anaerobic alactic system?
Phosphagen system
What is the anaerobic lactic system?
Glycolytic system
What advantage does Estim provide?
Allows for 100% muscle fiber recruitment, better than voluntary.
Where do neuronal contributions to strength gains come from?
Increased firing rate, increased recruitment of motor neurons, improved synchronization of motor unit firing.
What is the size principle?
Smaller, low threshold motor units must be recruited before larger, high threshold.
What happens to excitability after initial recruitment?
Once a motor unit is recruited, it takes less activation for subsequent recruitments.
What is selective recruitment?
Exception to the size principle. In cases where high power ballistic movements are required, you may skip to high threshold motor units. For explosive exercise.
What is the relationship between muscle size and required neural input to move a given load?
As muscle size increases, required neural input decreases.
What does anaerobic training do to the NMJ?
Anaerobic training induces beneficial morphological changes at the NMJ, conducive to enhanced transmission of neurotransmitters.
What is the myotatic reflex and how does anaerobic training impact it?
Same as stretch reflex, force potential increases with anaerobic resistance training.
What does an increased EMG signal imply?
Increased neuromuscular activity.
What leads to initial strength gains?
Nervous system adaptations which occur prior to hypertrophy.
How can athletes who hit training plateaus break past plateaus in strength gains?
Add variety to restimulate nervous system adaptations.
What is cross education?
If one limb is injured, training the contralateral limb still improves the strength of the injured limb via nervous system adaptations.
What is a bilateral deficit?
In untrained, the sum force of two unilateral contractions is greater than the force produced from a bilateral contraction.
What is bilateral facilitation?
In trained individuals, force from bilateral contraction is greater than the sum of unilateral contractions
How does anaerobic training impact antagonist muscles?
Decreases their activity during strength exercises, but increases their activity during sprints and plyos.
What changes occur in muscle as a result of anaerobic training?
Hypertrophy, proliferation of growth stimulating proteins in response to muscle deformation.
What role does inflammation play in muscle remodeling?
Stimulates protein turnover in response to damage that leads to long term hypertrophic adaptations.
What determines the degree of hypertrophy?
Training stimulus variables, genetics.
Does hyperplasia occur in humans?
Probs not.