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Module 2: MSK > Human Performace > Flashcards

Human Performace Flashcards

As of now, it only includes until the "Fitness" lecture

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Why is protein a dietary necessity for physical activity?

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  • Major component of all cells (collagen, elastin, etc)
  • Contractile proteins in skeletal muscle (actin, myosin, troponin)
  • Enzymes: facilitate biochemical reactions (synthetic, metabolic, regulatory)
  • Transport molecules from one place to another (hemoglobin, myoglobin, albumin)
  • Hormones: messenger proteins (insulin)
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Why is too much dietary protein a health concern?

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Major end product of protein metabolism is urea

  • ammonia from oxidative deamination reactions must be removed from the body
  • urea cycle converts ammonia to urea
  • occurs in liver, but urea is transported to kidneys for exrection
  • too much protein can overload the kidneys
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What are the dietary protein requirements for specific physical activity levels?

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What are methods of assessment that can be used to ascertain protein status?

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  • *Anthropometric Assessment:**
  • Body composition estimations
  • Mid-arm muscle circumference/area
  • *Laboratory Assessment:**
  • Serum Albumin
  • other serum proteins (transferrin, pre-albumin, retinol-binding protein)
  • Urinary creatine excretion
  • total lymphocyte count
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What serum markers can be used to assess protein status?

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Albumin: Maintains serum osmolality and transports small molecules

Transferrin: Transport protein for iron

Transthyretin/Pre-Albumin: binds to retinol binding protein and thyroxine

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What amino acids, peptides, and metabolites are most useful for muscle protein balance and performance?

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  • *- Branched chain amino acids/metabolites:**
  • Leucine appears to be specific effector of protein synthesis
  • beta-Hyroxy-beta-Methylbutyrate (HMB)
  • alpha-KetoisoCaproic acid (KIC)

- Beta-alanine

- Creatine

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Why is leucine important for muscle development and performance?

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  • It’s a potent, independent stimulator of muscle protein synthesis
  • Adding leucine to an EAA supplement during steady state exercise elicits a greater muscle synthesis than EAA alone (not the sam result from resistance exercise)
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Why is beta-Hyroxy-beta-Methylbutyrate (HMB) important for muscle development and performance?

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HMB may be a signal to activate protein synthesis or inhibit protein degredation

Purported benefits of HMP:

  • decreased muscle breakdown during exercise/muscle wasting and disease
  • decreased muscle damage from strenuous exercise
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Why is beta-Alanine/Carnosine important for muscle development and performance?

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Carnosine has very high lvels in skeletal muscle

  • protects against free radicals and lipid peroxidation
  • has membrane-protecting activity and proton buffering capacity
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What are the “essential” amino acids?

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Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Valine

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What are the “Conditionally Essential” amino acids?

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Cysteine
Glycine
Taurine
Proline
Tyrosine
Arginine
Glutamine
Selenocystenine

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How is creatine synthesized?

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Requires 3 Amino Acids:
Met (as S-adenosyl Met) + Gly + Arg

Methylation rxn from guanidinoacetate to craetine represents major use of SAM in the body

quantitatively major pathway in AA metabolism

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What is creatine’s role in energy metabolism?

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Phosphorylated creatine allows for the Phosphagen energy system to produce ATP

Quantity depends on muscle mass

Maintenance of creatine pool requries continuous synthesis

Synthesis prepresents metabolic burden, particularly on AA metabolism

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What is Creatine Kinase and what is it used as an index for?

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Creatine kinase reversibly catalyzes transfer of phosphate between ATP and creatine phosphate

Index of:
Myocardial Infarction
Muscle Damage
Musclular Dystrophy
Severe Exertion

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What is considered a safe and effective dose of creatine for muscle performance?

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3 g of creatine monohydrate per day

  • loading phase not necessary
  • Should be given in a 28 day cycle (28 on/28 off) as it takes > 28 days to go back to pre-supplement levels
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What are some pros and cons of creatine supplements?

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Pros:
- creatine supplements may enhance explosive strength or performance for short-term bouts of high intensity activities

Cons:

  • does not improve endurance performance
  • not everyone who takes it sees improvments (responders vs non-reponders)
  • has been shown to increase anterior compartment pressure of lower leg muscles
17
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Define Health/Fitness

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- Non-specific outcome
Overall health/wellness, quality of life

- Targets limited parameters
Cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength adn endurance, flexibility

- non-periodized
Relatively consisten pattern of intensity, duration, and frequency

- emotionally balanced
life stress coping, self-esteem, positive outlook

18
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Define Human Performance

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- Well-defined outcome
ability to perform specific task(s) under specific conditions

- targets full spectrum parameters
Cardiovascular endurace, muscular strength and endurance, power, speed, agility, flexibility

- Periodized
cycles training objectives by manipulating intensity, duration, and/or frequency

- Mission Mindset
arousal regulation, pain tolerance, harness high-stakes stress, self-preservation/mission completion balance

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What is the standard metabolic equivalent?

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MET:

  • index of energy expenditure
  • one MET = energy expended sitting quietly at rest
  • physical activity intensity is often expressed in MET units
20
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What are components of physical fitness?

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Cardiorespiratory Fitness
- Cardiac Output

Muscular strength and endurance

  • Body composition
  • Flexibility

Neuromotor (functional) fitness

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What is cardiorespiratory fitness?

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The ability of circulatory and respiratory systems to supply fuel during sustained physical activity and to eliminate metabolic by-products after supplying fuel

  • frequently measured by VO2 max
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What is cardiac output?

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Amount of blood ejected from heart each minute:
Stroke Volume x Heart Rate

Primary determinant = heart rate

23
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What is muscluar strength?

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ability of muscle to exert force

  • strength is health-related fitness component that is assessed by the maximal amount of resistance or force sustained in single effort
24
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What is muscular endurance?

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relates amount of external force a muscle can exert over an extended period of time

25
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What are the three types of muscle contractions and which has the greatest force?

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Concentric

Eccentric (greatest force)

Isometric

26
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What is muscle fiber hypertophy?

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  • Increase in numbers of myofibrils and actin and myosin filaments (allows more cross bridges)
  • increases muscle protein synthesis during post-exercise period
27
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What is body composition?

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fitness component that relates to the relative amounts of muscle, fat, bone, and other vital parts of the body

28
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What is flexibility?

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range of motion available at the joint

29
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What is neuromotor fitness?

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Integrated fitness composed of:

balance

agility

coordination

proprioception (sense of relative position)

30
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How can you measure and assess physical fitness?

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Assess VO2 Max

Test anaerobic power (Wingate test)

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How is VO2 Max assessed? What are the criteria?

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By measuring gas exchange at mouth

Primary Criteria:
<2.1 ml/kg/min increase with 2.5% grade increase often seen as plateau in VO2

Secondary criteria:
Blood lactate >= 8mmol/L
RER >= 1.10
increased HR to 90%
RPE >= 17

32
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What is anaerobic power?

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Maximal effort:

depends on ATP-PC energy reserves and max rate at which energy can be produced by anaerobic system

Tested by Wingate test

33
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What is the Wingate Test?

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30 sec cycle ergometer test

count pedal revolutions

calculate peak power output, anaerobic fatigue, and anaerobic capacity

34
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Describe the concept of training and overload

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Progressive overload to displace homeostasis and create stimulus for adaptation

Overload principle: gains only come with progressively greater demands

35
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What is physical adaptation?

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change in physiologic functions that occur with training, rest and recovery

36
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What is the SAID principle?

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Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands:

specific exercise elicits specific adaptations to elicit specific training effects

(train for the improvement you want)

37
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What is the principle of reversibility?

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training effects gained through aerobic traning are reversible through detraining

(if you don’t use it, you lose it)

38
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What is the periodization principle?

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technique that involves altering training variables to achieve well-defined gains in muscular strength, endurance, and performance

  • *Activation Phase** (4 weeks)
  • *Strength development** (4-7 weeks)
  • *Muscular endurance** (8-12 weeks)
  • *Rest**

Module 2: MSK (11 decks)

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