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What is resistance exercise?

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Any exercise that causes the muscle to contract against an external resistance with the primary aim of improving muscle strength

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Three types of resistance exercise?

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Concentric, eccentric, isometric

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How do concentric exercises work?

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They shorten the muscle

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How do eccentric exercises work?

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They lengthen the muscle

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How do isometric exercises work?

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They generate force without changing the length of the muscle

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Issue with definition of resistance exercise?

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“external resistance” is a relative term

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What is strength?

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Capacity to exert force under a set of biomechanical conditions

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What is the short term effect of resistance training?

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negative

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Actual short term effects of resistance training?

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Fatiguing, damaging

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What is supercompensation?

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An increase in capacity after a recovery from a resistance exercise

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What is involution?

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The returning to original capacity after a supercomposition if nothing is done to maintain it

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What makes a muscle stronger?

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size

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What attaches a muscle to a bone?

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A tendon

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Name for a bundle of muscle fibres?

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Fasiculus

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How many myofibrils in a single muscle fibre?

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roughly 2000

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What makes up muscle fasicles?

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Muscle fibres

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How many myonuclei per muscle fibre?

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200-300

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What connects myosin to Z lines?

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titin

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Step 1 of muscle contraction?

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AP arrives at neuromuscular junction

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What happens after AP arrives at neuromuscular junction?

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ACh is released

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What happens as a result of ACh release in muscle?

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Depolarization as a result of binding to receptors in myocyte membrane

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What happens as a result of depolarisation?

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Ca2+ is released inside the cell from the sarcoplasmic reticulum

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What does Ca2+ bind to after being released?

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Troponin

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What happens as a result of Ca2+ binding to tropinin?

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Troponin changes shape

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What happens as a result of troponin changing shape?
Tropomyosin is moved from the active site of the actin filament
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What happens after tropomyosin has moved from the actin filament's active site?
Myosin attaches to actin, forming a cross bridge at a binding site?
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What happens as a result of myosin forming a cross bridge?
ATP attached to the myosin head it broken down to release energy for a power stroke of the myosin filament
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What happens as a result of a power stroke?
Z lines move together
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What does it mean if Z lines have moved together?
Sarcomere length is reduced--> contracting
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What happens after the Z lines have moved closer together?
A new ATP molecule binds to the myosin head
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What happens as a result of a new ATP binding to the myosin head?
The head is released from the actin binding site
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What happens if there is still calcium left in the cell once the myosin head has released?
It will attach to the next nearest actin filament binding site
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What happens if there is no Ca2+ or ATP?
The process stops
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What is hypertrophy?
Net muscle gain
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What is atrophy?
Net muscle loss
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What happens to muscle synthesis when amino acids are ingested?
The rate of muscle synthesis increases
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What happens to the rate of muscle breakdown when AAs are ingested?
decreases
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What happens to the rate of muscle synthesis a while after AA ingestion?
Decreases
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What happens to the rate of muscle breakdown a while after AA ingestion?
Increases/ returns to original level
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What happens to muscle breakdown if you do exercise a while after eating?
It increases higher than it would do if you hadn't done exercise
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What happens to muscle synthesis if you do exercise after eating?
It increases a lot
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How does muscle synthesis increase after doing exercise?
The anabolic response is primed as a result of doing resistance exercise
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How long is the anabolic response primed post exercise?
24-48 hrs
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What happens to hypertrophy after the onset of training?
It is delayed
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Why is hypertrophy delayed after training?
A lot of the muscle protein synthesis is repairing the muscles that were damaged as a result of the training, so it isnt "new" muscle
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What happens to muscle synthesis as you train more?
There is less muscle damage, so more of the muscle synthesis is going to hypertrophy instead of repair
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Why do muscles look larger after training even though they have been damaged?
Oedema induced muscle swelling
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What is Oedema induced muscle swelling?
A swelling in response to the muscles being damaged
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What happens as a result of Oedema induced muscle swelling?
The muscle size/cross sectional area is artificially increased
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Why does hypertrophy slowly plateau as you train more?
The "priming effect" loses its potency so less hypertrophy occurs
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What did the Damas 2017 study show about trained muscle hypertrophy effect in response to damage compared to non-trained muscle?
The initial increase in hypertrophy immediately post training for the trained muscle was the same as the untrained muscle ("priming effect") however it dropped off over time a lot faster than the untrained muscle did
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What is muscle fibre hypertrophy?
The muscle cells getting bigger
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What is muscle fibre hyperplasia?
The amount of cells increasing
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What increases post resistance training?
Fibre hypertrophy
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How does myofiber hypertrophy happen?
myofibril splitting
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What is a myofibril?
An organelle in a muscle cell
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Role of myofibril?
produce contraction
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Why is it a challenge to measure hyperplasia
Would have to chop leg in half, count number of cells, do exercise, chop leg in half and count cells again
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When does hyperplasia definitely occur?
In utero (when foetus is growing)
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At what point in utero does myofiber hyperplasia stop?
24 weeks (60-70% of mammalian gestation)

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