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Chapter 7 - Energy Transfer During Physical Activity Flashcards

1
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What is the ATP-PCr Energy System Responsible for?

A

High-Intensity Exercise of Short Duration
- Under 10 seconds

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How much ATP and PCr does each kg of skeletal muscle contain?

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ATP
- 3-8mmol
PCr
- 12-48mmol

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What is the Short-term Glycolytic Energy System responsible for?

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Intense, Short-duration exercise

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What results from short-term glycolytic energy systems?

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  • lactate formation
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When would there be rapid and large accumulation of blood lactate?

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Maximal Exercise of 60-180 seconds

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What happens when you decrease intensity of exercise to extend duration?

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  • Depressed lactate accumulation rate
  • Reduced final blood lactate levels
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7
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Does blood lactate accumulate at all exercise levels?

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  • NO
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8
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When does blood lactate not accumulate during exercise?

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Light/Moderate Exercise
- Under 50% aerobic capacity

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9
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Why does blood lactate not accumulate during light/moderate exercise?

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  • Lactate production equals lactate clearance
  • Oxygen-consuming reactions adequately meeting exercise energy demands
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What have tracer studies that label the carbon in glucose show about lactate?

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  • 70% oxidizes
  • 20% converts to glucose in muscle/liver
  • 10% synthesizes amino acids
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11
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Why would a trained person perform steady-rate aerobic exercise at 80-90% of maximum aerobic capacity?

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  • Specific Genetic Endowment
  • Specific local training adaptations that favour less lactate production
  • More rapid rate of lactate removal at any exercise intensity
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12
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What is the difference between lactate concentration for trained and untrained individuals?

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Untrained
- Early lactate threshold
- Lower max lactate tolerance
Trained
- Steep curve
- Later lactate threshold
- High tolerance

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13
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What factors are related to the lactate threshold?

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  • Low tissue oxygen
  • Reliance on Glycolysis
  • Activate fast-twitch muscle fibers
  • Reduced lactate removal
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14
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What factors contribute to higher blood lactate levels during maximal exercise due to specific sprint-power anaerobic training? Are these factors permanent?

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Factors
- Improved motivation
- Increased intramuscular glycogen stores
- Increase in Glycolytic-Related Enzymes
Permanent
- NO, reduce when training ceases

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15
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What does lactate shuttling between cells do?

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  • enables glycogenolysis in one cell to supply other cells with fuel for oxidation
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16
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Other than lactate production, what is the muscle also a major site for?

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  • Removal of lactate via oxidation
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What happens to glucose that is derived from lactate?

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  • Returns in blood to skeletal muscle for energy metabolism
  • Synthesizes to glycogen for storage
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18
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What is the long-term energy system?

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  • The Aerobic System
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19
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What provides nearly all the energy transfer when intense exercise continues beyond several minutes?

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  • Aerobic Metabolism
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20
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What happens with oxygen uptake during exercise?

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Initially
- Rises exponentially
Eventually
- Plateaus, then remains in steady-rate for duration of effort

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21
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Explain steady-rate aerobic metabolism

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  • balance between energy required and ATP production in aerobic reactions
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What is the relation between lactate and steady-rate conditions?

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  • No appreciable blood lactate accumulation
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What 2 factors limit steady-rate metabolism?

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  • fluid loss/electrolyte depletion
  • Balance between glycogen reserves in liver for CNS and muscle to power exercise
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What two factors help explain athlete’s high steady-rate levels?

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  • High capacity for oxygen delivery to working muscles
  • High capacity of active muscles to use oxygen
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Describe the oxygen deficit?

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  • the difference between total oxygen consumed and total that would be consumed with immediate steady-rate uptake
26
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What does the Oxygen Deficit represent?

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  • immediate anaerobic energy transfer from the hydrolysis of intramuscular high-energy phosphates and glycolysis until steady-rate energy transfer meets current energy demands
27
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How does the energy for exercise occur?

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  • smooth blending and considerable overlap of different modes of energy systems
28
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What is the oxygen uptake fast component?

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  • Exponential rise in oxygen uptake in first minutes of physical activity
  • plateau around 3rd or 4th minute
29
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What is unique about endurance-trained individuals regarding steady-rate?

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Compared to sprint-power athletes, cardiac patients, older adults, and untrained:
- Reach it more rapidly
- Smaller oxygen deficit

30
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What causes a trained individual to consume a greater total amount of oxygen during steady-rate exercise? What else does it do?

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Faster Aerobic Kinetic Response
- makes an anaerobic component of exercise energy transfer proportionally smaller

31
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What three aerobic training adaptations facilitate the rate of aerobic metabolism when exercise begins?

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  • Rapid increases in muscle bioenergetics
  • Rapid Increase in overall blood flow
  • Disproportionally larger region blood flow to active muscle, complimented by cellular adaptations
32
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What do the three aerobic training adaptations that facilitate the rate of aerobic metabolism when exercise begins do?

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  • Increase individual total capacity to generate ATP aerobically
33
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What does a High VO2max require?

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  • Integrate and high-level responses of five diverse physiologic support systems
34
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What 5 physiologic support systems must integrate and work at high levels to get a High VO2max?

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  • Pulmonary Ventilation
  • Hemoglobin Concentration
  • Blood Volume and Cardiac Output
  • Peripheral Blood Flow
  • Aerobic Metabolism
35
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What four factors does Hill suggest that determine VO2max?

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  • Arterial O2 Saturation
  • Mixed Venous Saturation
  • O2 capacity of the Blood
  • Circulation Rate
36
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What quantitative estimate is made for arterial O2 saturation?

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  • Ventilation
37
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What quantitative estimate is made for Mixed Venous Saturation?

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  • Central Blood Flow
38
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What quantitative estimate is made for O2 capacity of the blood?

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  • Active Muscle Metabolism
39
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What quantitative estimate is made for the circulation rate?

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  • Peripheral Blood Flow
40
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Why are athletics used for study on exercise physiology?

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  • Simple, measurable, and constants
  • Athletes: reduced danger (healthy)
  • Exciting and new for physiology (more recruits)
41
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Why are both muscle twitch fibers usually required for most sports?

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  • slow, sustained muscle action
  • Short bursts of power
42
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What do athletes who excel in different sports usually have with regard to muscle fiber type?

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  • a large percentage of specific muscle fiber type that supports that sport’s energy demand
43
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Describe Fast-Twitch Muscle Fibers

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Type II
- Rapid Contraction Speed
- High Capacity for Anaerobic ATP production
Type IIa
- High Aerobic Capacity

44
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What type of movement are Type II muscle fibers good at?

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  • Change of pace
  • stop and go
45
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What type of muscle fiber is Fast-Twitch?

46
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Describe Slow-twitch muscle fibers

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  • Generate energy through aerobic pathways
  • Slow contraction speed
47
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What type of activity are Slow-twitch muscle fibers good for?

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  • Continuous activities
  • Steady-rate aerobic energy transfer
48
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What type of muscle fiber is a slow-twitch?

49
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What type and percentage of muscle fibers would a swim champion have?

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Type II
- Fast-twitch
- 80%

50
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What type and percentage of muscle fibers would an endurance cyclist have?

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Type I
- Slow-twitch
- 80%

51
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What is EPOC?

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Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption

52
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What 7 things contribute to EPOC?

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  • Resynthesize ATP & PCr
  • Resynthesize Lactate to Glycogen
  • Oxidize Lactate for energy metabolism
  • Restore Oxygen to Myoglobin and Blood
  • Restore thermogenic effects of elevated core temp
  • Thermogenic effect of hormones (catecholamines)
  • Restore Elevated HR, VE, other physio function
53
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Describe Steady-State Exercise

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  • moderate/low exercise during recovery
  • Facilitates recovery
54
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What does steady-state exercise during recovery do?

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  • Re-synthesis of high-energy phosphates
  • replenish O2 in blood
  • Replenish bodily fluids
  • replenish muscle myoglobin
  • small energy cost to elevate circulation/ventilation
55
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Why is passive procedure important during recovery?

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  • additional elevate total metabolism, delay recovery
56
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What do most individuals do when left to their own choice regarding steady-state exercise?

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  • Select optimal recovery intensity
57
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What does performing aerobic exercise in recovery do to lactate?

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  • Accelerates blood lactate removal
58
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Why does performing aerobic exercise in recovery accelerate blood lactate removal?

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Increased
- blood perfusion through the liver, heart, and ventilatory muscles
- blood flow through skeletal muscles in active recovery

59
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Describe Intermittent Interval Physical Activity

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  • Supramaximal exercise to overload specific energy transfer system
  • Rapid recovery in interval
60
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What can you do in interval training to overload a specific energy-transfer system?

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  • Manipulate duration of exercise and rest intervals

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