exam 3 Flashcards
muscular fitness
strength gains as a percent of initial strength
hypertrophy
increase in muscle size
hyperplasia
increase in muscle fiber size
and # of muscle cells
atrophy
loss of size, or mass, of body tissue with disuse
strength gains result from
increase in muscle size
altered neural control
Neural factors affecting strength
SCARR
1. synchronization of motor units
2. coactivation of agonist and antagonists
3. Autogenic inhibition
4. recruitment of motor units
5. rate coding of motor units
synchronizing of motor units
generally recruited asynchronously
coactivation of agonist and antagonist’s muscles
normally, the antagonist opposes the agonist force
reduced coactivation may lead to strength gains
autogenic inhibition
reflex inhibition of a motor neuron in response to excessive tension in the muscle fibers it supplies
RT can override these protective mechanisms
rate coding of motor units
frequency of discharge may increase with RT
-ballistic type training appears to be most affective
recruitment of motor units
more motor units are recruited due to increased neural drive to alpha- motor neurons
transient hypertrophy
increased muscle size that develops during and immediately after a single exercise bout
-due to edema formation from plasma fluid
-disappears within hours after exercise
-sarcoplasmic expansion
chronic hypertrophy
increase in muscle size that occurs with long term RT
-reflects actual structural change in muscle due to
-fiber hypertrophy
-fiber hyperplasia
-myofilaments
chronic hypertrophy maximized by
high-velocity eccentric training (change of direction)
-stressed stretch reflex and periodized program trains stretch reflex
-disrupts sarcomere Z lines (protein remodeling)
protein synthesis
adding in myofilaments and protein to be synthesized
sarcoplasmic hypertrophy
sarcoplasm grows faster than the muscle
what type of cell repairs muscles
satellite cells
BCAA branches chains amino acid
stimulate additional protein
mTOR
enzyme in a pathway that causes protein synthesis
loading/resistance training stimulate
mTOR
insulin stimulates
m TOR
testosterone hormone
anabolic hormone
promotes large increase in muscle mass
anabolic hormone
stimulates the building of things
catabolic hormone
adrenaline, cortisol and glucagon.
early increase to muscle strength
due to increased voluntary neural activation
in the first 8-10 weeks
long term increase in muscle strength
associated with muscle hypertrophy
-net increase in protein synthesis takes time to occur
-after first 10 weeks
type 2 fibers become more ____ with aerobic training
oxidative
type 1 fibers become more ____ anaerobic training
anaerobic
fiber type conversion from 2a to 2x possible under certain conditions
high intensity training or resistance training
atrophy due to immobilization
major changes in the 6 hours
lack of muscle use = reduce rate of protein synthesis
-initiates process of muscle atrophy
which fiber type is more affected by immobilizing
type 1 fibers
causes of muscle atrophy
decrease in working out, more unloading
what makes you sore?
exhaustive, high-intensity exercise
-first time doing that exercise
-eccentric contractions
when do you experience soreness
during and immediately after exercise 1-2 days later
acute muscle soreness
pain and soreness experienced during and immediately after exercise that lasts several minutes to several hours
what causes acute muscle soreness
-accumulation of metabolic by-products
-edema: fluid shifting from the blood plasma into the tissues
DOMS
muscle soreness that develops 1-3 days after a heavy bout of exercise that is associated with actual injury within the muscle
cause of doms
eccentric contractions
DOMs is classified as a
type 1 muscle strain
muscle of enzymes in blood indicate ___ and suggest _____
DOMS and suggests damage to muscle membrane
the more creatine kinase
= the more DOMS
muscle cell enzymes in blood cause
swelling and pain
sarcomere Z disk
transmit force when muscle fibers contract
-z disk and myofilament damage after eccentric work
Sequence of events of DOMS
- high tension in muscle = structural to muscle (zdisks), cell membranes
- membrane damage disturbs CA2 homeostasis in injured fiber
-inhibits cellular respiration
-activated enzyme that degrade z-disks - after few hours, circulating neutrophils increase inflammatory response
- products of macrophage activity, intracellular contents accumlate
-histamine. kinins, K+
damage to the muscle fiber and plasmalemma sets up chain of events
release of intracellular proteins -CK
increase in muscle protein turnover
loss of strength results from
- physical disruption of the muscle - cell membrane and z disks
- failure within the excitation-contraction coupling process
- loss of contractile protein - actin, myosin, troponin, tropomyosin
muscle damage decreases
glycogen resynthesis- metabolic
cardiorespiratory endurance
ability to sustain prolonged, dynamic exercise
fick equation (how you calculate VO2)
VO2= SV x HR x (a-v)O2 difference
Cardiac Output (Q)
SV x HR
SV increases after training which increases
plasma volume and RBC
increase in RBC =
O2 delivery
EDV =
end of relaxation phase