Resistance Training Flashcards
1
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Skeletal muscle
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- considered plastic in response to training and detraining
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2
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Fibres are classified due to ?
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speed of contraction and characteristics
3
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Max hypertrophy must work
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- at 80-95% recruiting all fibres in this range
- relative intensity vs 1rm: to maximise strength must go to fatigue
4
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Sarcomeres
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- removed when shortened (hypotrophy)
- added when lengthened (hypertrophy)
strength improvements are very rapid
5
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Time course of adaptations to training
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- Early increases are neural (skill, reduced inhibition and improved synchronisation).
- However, there is still a good correlation between x-sectional area and strength (especially in a heterogenous population).
- Early changes in strength are paralleled by changes in EMG; later changes in strength are not matched by changes in EMG (and are therefore attributed to ‘myogenic’ changes)
6
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Myogenic
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structural changes
- improvements in strength and force with training
7
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Neural adaptations
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- to strength training can involve recruitment of high threshold motor units not previously recruitable and an increased firing rate of motor units.
- only for new trainers who haven’t exercised before
8
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Retraining
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- will retain strength more quickly then the first time
9
Q
can increase force with training but no change in what?
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EMG
10
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Agonist muscles
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- make a greater contribution to movement after strength training and reduce co-contraction of antagonist
11
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Co-contraction of the antagonist
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- provides joint stability
- improves movement coordination
- most common in high velocity moments where precision and braking are required
12
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Body builders
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- don’t need to be measured on strength
- tend to do high reps, endurance sessions
- more type 1 fibres than type 2
- differs from weightlifters and powerlifters
13
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Hypertrophy
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- grow in size
14
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Hyperplasia
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- enlargement of an organ or tissue caused by an increase in the reproduction rate of its cells, often as an initial stage in the development of cancer.
15
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To increase muscle fibres must …
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split existing muscle fibres