Final Flashcards
The flow of energy in a biological system: the conversion of macronutrients into biologically usable forms of energy
Bioenergetics
The breakdown of large molecules into
smaller molecules, associated with the release of
energy
Catabolism
The synthesis of larger molecules from
smaller molecules; can be accomplished using the
energy released from catabolic reactions
Anabolism
Energy-releasing reactions that
are generally catabolic.
Exergonic reactions
Require energy and include
anabolic processes and the contraction of muscle.
Endergoinc reactions
The total of all the catabolic or exergonic
and anabolic or endergonic reactions in a biological
system.
Metabolism
Allows the transfer of
energy from exergonic to endergonic reactions.
Adenosis triphosphate (ATP)
Three basic energy systems exist in muscle
cells to replenish ATP:
Phosphagen, glycolysis, oxidative system
short-term, high-intensity activities (e.g.,
resistance training and sprinting)
Phosphagen system
active at the start of all exercise regardless of
intensity
• Creatine kinase catalyzes the synthesis of ATP
from CP and ADP
Phosphagen system
The breakdown of
carbohydrates—either
glycogen stored in the
muscle or glucose
delivered in the blood—
to resynthesize AT
Glycolysis
The end result of glycolysis (pyruvate) may
proceed in one of two directions:
- Pyruvate can be converted to lactate
• Anaerobic glycolysis, faster, shorter duration - Pyruvate can be shuttled into the mitochondria
• Aerobic glycolysis (Krebs cycle), slower, longer duration
Marker of anaerobic threshold
Lactate threshold
The exercise intensity or relative intensity at which blood lactate begins
an abrupt increase above the baseline concentration
LACTATE THRESHOLD in untrained individuals
50% to 60% VO2max
Lactate threshold in aerobically trained athletes
70-80%
0-6 second extremely high
Phosphagen
6-30sec very high
Phosphagen and glycolysis
Greater than 3 min, low
Oxidative
2-3 min, moderate
Fast glycolysis and oxidative
Oxidative system=
Aerobic
Primary source of ATP at
rest and during low-
intensity activities
Oxidative (Aerobic)
Primarily uses
carbohydrates and fats
Oxidative (aerobic system)
Creatine phosphate can decrease markedly
(50-70%) during the
first stage (5-30 seconds) of high-
intensity exercise and can be almost eliminated as a
result of very intense exercise to exhaustion
Complete resynthesis of ATP appears to occur within
3-5 min
complete creatine phosphate
resynthesis can occur within
8 minutes
The rate of glycogen depletion is related to
Exercise intensity
• >60% of VO2max, muscle glycogen becomes more
Important
Repletion of muscle glycogen during recovery is related to
Postexercise carbohydrate ingestion
EPOC =
Excess postexercise oxygen consumption
Oxygen uptake above resting values used to restore the body to the preexercise condition; also called postexercise oxygen uptake, oxygen debt, or recovery O2
Excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC)
Guidelines and special
considerations
– Body mechanics of the
therapist – Application of manual
resistance and
stabilization – Verbal commands
Manual resistance
Elastic resistance, free weights, cables, body weight
Mechanical resistance
Muscle contracts and produces force without visible joint movement
Isometric exercise
Muscle-setting exercises • Stabilization exercises • Multiple-angle isometrics
– Characteristics and effects
• Intensity of muscle contraction
• Duration of muscle activation
• Repetitive contractions
• Joint angle and mode specificity
• Sources of resistance
Isometric exercise
Constant resistance
Isotonic
Constant velocity (speed)
• Training effects and
– Range and selection of
carryover to function
training velocities – Limitations in carryover – Reciprocal versus isolated
• Special considerations
muscle training for isokinetic training
– Specificity of training – Availability of equipment
– Compressive forces on joints – Appropriate set up
– Accommodation to fatigue – Initiation and
– Accommodation to a painful
progression of isokinetic arc
training during rehabilitation
Isokinetic exercise
Inflammation
– Inflammatory
neuromuscular disease – Inflammatory muscular
disease – Acute joint inflammation
• Severe cardiopulmonary
disease
Precautions and contraindications
Central adaptations
– Motor cortex activity increases
with increased load or novelty
– Many neural changes take place
along descending corticospinal
tracts
• Adaptations of motor units
– Increased
• Recruitment
• Rate of firing •
Synchronization of firing
Neural adaptations
• Increased total area •
More dispersed, irregularly shaped synapses and a
greater total length of nerve terminal branching
• Increased end-plate perimeter length and area, as
well as greater dispersion of acetylcholine
receptors within the end-plate region
Neuromuscular junction adaptations
increasing its size • facilitating fiber type transitions • enhancing its biochemical and ultra-structural
component
Muscular adaptations
Resistance training results in increases in both
Type I and Type II
Muscle fiber area