UTA Exercise Physiology Exam 2 Ch. 17 & 18

What is the basis for all human movement?

Muscle contraction

What kind of skeletal muscle is under conscious control?

Voluntary

What kind of skeletal muscle has a repeating pattern of light and dark bands?

Striated

What kind of muscle assists with movement of material through hollow tubes?

Smooth

List 2 descriptions of smooth muscle

non-striated and involuntary

What kind of muscle provides the pumping action of the heart?

Cardiac

What kind of muscle is striated and involuntary?

cardiac muscle

List 4 functions of skeletal muscle:

locomotion, posture, venous return, thermogenesis

What characteristic of muscle tissue is the ability to receive and respond to stimuli?

irritability

What characteristic of muscle tissue causes the ability to respond to stimuli by shortening?

contractility

What characteristic of muscle tissue gives it the ability to lengthen or stretch?

extensibility

What characteristic of muscle tissues gives it the ability to return to resting length after stretching?

elasticity

List 4 characteristics of muscle tissue

irritability, contractility, extensibility, elasticity

How many skeletal muscles in the human body?

>600

What % of the male body weight do skeletal muscles take up?

40-45

What % of the female body weight to skeletal muscles constitute?

23-25

What attaches muscles to bone?

Tendons

What is the connective tissue that binds muscles together?

fascia

What is the delicate layer of connective tissue directly covering muscle?

epimysium

What are bundles of muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue

fasiculi

What is the connective tissue that separates fasiculi?

perimysium

What is the connective tissue that separates individual muscle fibers?

endomysium

List layers of muscle fiber from outside to inside:

epimysium, perimysium, endomysium

What muscle classification is for long muscles?

longitudinal

Biceps brachii are what kind of muscle

fusiform

gluteus medius are what kind of muscle

radiate

tibialis posterior is what kind of muscle

unipennate

gastrocnemius is what kind of muscle

bipennate

orbicular oculi is what kind of muscle

circular

What are muscle cells called?

Muscle fibers

A sarcoplasm is similar to?

cytoplasm, but has specific adaptions to serve functional needs of muscle cells, specifically increased amounts of glycogen and oxygen binding protein myoglobin

What is the organelle that wraps around myofibrils and stores calcium?

sarcoplasmic reticulum

What carries electrical signals from the sarcolemma to the interior of the muscle cell?

transverse tubules

What are small cylindrical units that are the contractile organelles and are composed of myofilaments?

myofibrils

What are the contractile (thick and thin) proteins responsible for muscle contraction?

myofilaments

What are the functional units of muscle fibers?

sarcomeres
Contains thick and thin filaments

What are the light bands that contain only thin filaments?

I Bands

What does I band stand for?

Isotropic

What are the dark bands that contain thick and thin filaments?

A bands

What does A band stand for?

anisotropic

What interrupts A bands in their midsection where there is no overlap of thick and thin filaments?

H Zone

True or false: There is no actin in the H zone

true

What has no overlap of thick and thin filaments?

H zone

What is the dense line in the middle of the H zone?

M line

What anchors thin filaments to adjacent sarcomeres?

Z discs

In a cross-section of a sarcomere how many
thin
filaments surround the
thick
filaments?

6

In a cross-section of a sarcomere how many
thick
filaments surround the
thin
filaments?

3

What is the thick filament?

Myosin

Myosin heads have two reactive sites which are?

-one allows it to bind with active filaments
-one binds to ATP

What is the thin filament?

Actin

What filaments make up the thin filaments?

actin, troponin, tropomyosin

Which thin filament is globular?

actin

Which thin filament is like long string?

tropomyosin, it blocks the active site on actin during relaxation

What part of thin filaments contain active sites?

actin

Which troponin does calcium attach to to reveal the active site on actin?

Troponin-C

Which band does not change in length during contraction?

A Band

What part of the sarcomere moves closer together during contraction?

Z discs

What band shortens and may even disappear during contraction?

I bands

What zone shortens and may disappear during contractions?

H zone

List in order the phases of excitation-contraction coupling:

spread of depolarization, binding of calcium to troponin, generation of force

In phase 1 of excitation-contraction coupling:

-Action potential in the sarcolemma is carried to the inferior of the cell through the T tubules
-Action potential triggers release of Ca+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR)

In phase 2 of excitation-contraction coupling:

Calcium binds to Tn-C subunit of troponin, causing exposure of actin active sites

In phase 3 of excitation-contraction coupling:

Activated myosin head binds to active site pulling the actin over the myosin and contracting the sarcomere
This is also step one of cross bridge cycle

Motor neuron is stimulated; all the muscle fibers in that motor unit contract to their fullest extent or they do not contract at all

All-Or-None principle

What is a motor neuron and the muscle fiber it innervates?

Motor unit

List in order the 4 steps of the cross-bridge cycle:

binding of myosin head to actin, power stroke, dissociation of myosin and actin, activation of myosin heads

What occurs in step one, the
binding
step of CBC?

Activated myosin head binds to actin
ADP + Pi remain bound to myosin

What occurs in step two, the
power stroke
step of CBC?

Myosin head swivels, causing displacement of actin filament

What occurs in step three, the
dissociation
step of CBC?

ATP binds to myosin
Actin and myosin dissociate

What occurs in step four, the
activation
step of CBC?

Energy from hydrolysis from ATP is used to activate myosin head
-ADP + Pi remain bound to myosin

What are 2 contractile properties of muscle fibers

fast twitch, slow twitch

What are 2 metabolic properties of muscle fibers

oxidative, glycolytic

What muscle type is innervated by alpha2 motor neurons, conduct slow and have a low recruitment threshold?

SO

What muscle fiber type is innervated by alpha1 motor neurons, conduct fast and have a high recruitment threshold?

FOG or FG

What motor neuron is small therefore recruited first?

Alpha 2

What motor neuron is larger and recruited second

Alpha 1

True or False both muscle fibers are used at all times

True, but the percentage varies.

What muscle fiber type has a small diameter, high mitochondria, high capillary density, high myoglobin content, and high oxidative enzyme activity?

SO

What muscle fiber type has a large diameter, low mitochondrial, low capillary density, low myoglobin content, and high glycolytic enzyme activity?

FG

What muscle fiber type has an intermediate diameter, an intermediate mitochondrial, capillary density, myoglobin, and oxidative enzyme activity but high PC stores, glycogen stores, and glycolytic enzyme activity?

FOG

SO fibers are ________ to fatigue.

Resistant

FG fibers are _________ to fatigue.

Quickest

FOG fibers are somewhat ________ resistant to fatigue than SO fibers and somewhat _________ resistant to fatigue than the FG fibers.

Less; More

How is fiber distribution primarily determined?

Genetically

Most individuals possess between ____ and _____ ST fibers

45% & 55%

True or False males tend to show greater variation of distribution of muscle-fibers than females

True

True or False Fiber distribution changes significantly as a function of age after early childhood

False, it does not change

Muscles involved in sustained postural activity have the highest number of what kind of muscle fibers?

SO

What is the force developed when a contracting muscle acts on an object?

tension
ex. force when holding a dumbbell

What is the force exerted on a muscle?

load
ex. a dumbbell

What is the tension producing process of the contractile elements within the muscle?

contraction

What is the capability of a force (or tension) to produce rotation of a limb around a joint?

torque

What kind of contraction occurs when the tension generated by the
muscle fiber
is constant through the range of motion?

isotonic

What kind of
whole muscle
contraction occurs when the force exerted varies as the muscle shortens to accommodate change in muscle length and/or joint angle throughout the range of motion while moving a constant external load?

dynamic contraction

Are isotonic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

muscle fiber

Are dynamic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

Whole muscle

What kind of muscle contraction is a dynamic contraction producing tension during muscle
shortening
?

concentric

Concentric contractions produce positive or negative external work?

positive

What kind of contraction is a dynamic contraction producing tension while
lengthening
?

eccentric

Eccentric contractions result in negative or positive external work?

negative

What produces a greater force, eccentric or concentric?

eccentric

What kind of
muscle fiber
contraction happens when the velocity of the contraction is kept constant?

isokinetic

Are isokinetic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

muscle fiber

What kind of
whole muscle
contraction happens when the rate of limb displacement or joint rotation is held constant with the use of specialized equipment?

isokinematic

Are isokinematic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

whole muscle

What kind of muscle contraction does not result in a length change in
muscle fiber
?

isometric

Are isometric contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

muscle fiber

What kind of
whole muscle
contraction does not cause meaningful limb displacement or joint displacement and therefore does not result in movement of the skeleton?

Static

Are static contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

whole muscle

What kind of contraction produces zero work?

isometric

What term describes the frequency of muscle recruitment?

rate-coding

As frequency of stimulation increases in a muscle fiber what also increases?

force produced

What term describes varying the number of motor units activated?

Number-coding

Some motor units are always contracting in an alternating manner, these contractions maintain _____

muscle tone or tonus

As more force is needed more _____ are recruited

Motor units

List in order the motor neurons that are recrurited:

alpha 2 (SO), alpha 1 (FOG then FG)

List the order of the deactivation of motor neurons when stimulus has ended:

FG, FOG, SO

The max number of cross-bridges coincides with the highest force production which occurs at ___ % of resting sarcomere length.

100-120

The amount of tension produced is directly related to ____

degree of overlap of thick and thin filaments

In shortened fibers where thick and thin over-lap almost completely ___ force is produced

less

What is characterized by an increase in torque as the joint angle increases?

Ascending strength curve

What is characterized by a decrease in torque as the joint angle increases?

descending strength curve

What relationship happens when Within an muscle fiber, the amount of tension that can be exerted is related to the initial length of the sarcomeres?

length-tension-angle relationship

What relationship is this: The shortening velocity of a muscle increases as the force developed by the muscle decreases

force-velocity or power/velocity relationship

If the external force overcomes the ability of the muscle to resist it, the muscle ____

lengthens (eccentric)

What is the shape of the power-velocity relationship?

curvilinear

The power is higher in individuals with more than 50% __ fibers

FT

The power curve of the predominantly ___ fiber individuals levels off then downturns at higher velocities

ST

What relationship: When a muscle fiber is stretched and then contracted the resultant contraction is stronger than it would have been without prestretching.

elasticity-force

What relationship: The force that can be developed by a whole muscle is also related to its cross-sectional area.

Cross-sectional area

What kind of muscles are designed for high-velocity shortening?

fusiform

What kind of muscles are designed for high force geneartion

pennate, bipennate, and multipenate

List 3 sites of muscular fatigue

CNS, Peripheral Nervous system, skeletal muscle fibers

What kind of fatigue may be related to neurons in the brain or spinal cord with inhibitory input from muscle afferents innervating neurons in the bran?

Central fatigue

What kind of fatigue refers to fatigue at a site beyond the CNS including the NMJ or skeletal muscle?

Peripheral fatigue

Where would inihibition of axon terminals, deletion of neurotransmitter, or altered neurotransmitter binding to receptors that cause fatigue happen?

NMJ

Where would inability to release Ca or inability of ca to bind to troponin that causes fatigue occur?

T-Tube, SR

Where would malfunction of neurons, inhibition of voluntary effort, or psychological factors that cause fatigue occur?

CNS

Where would depletion of ATP, PC and/or glycogen, or accumulation of lactate, H, PO that cause fatigue occur?

contractile elements

What is Characterized by pain during and immediately after exercise, which may persist for several hours thought to be caused by stimulation of the pain receptors by metabolic by-products especially H+ associated with increased lactic acid levels?

Immediate-Onset Muscle Soreness

What is A condition characterized by muscle tenderness, pain on palpitation, and mechanical stiffness that appears approximately 8 hours after exercise, increases and peaks over the next 24 to 48 hours, and usually subsides within 96 hours?

Delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS):

List in order the etiology and mechanisms of muscle soreness:

high mechanical forces, structural damage, increase intracellular Ca, degradation of z-discs, inflammation, white blood cells increasing, changes in tissue osmolarity, pain (DOMS), local ischemia

What would reduced strength, power, and performance in muscles?

muscle soreness

What causes an alteration of temporal sequencing of muscles?

Muscle soreness

What are treatments for muscle soreness

NSAIDs, stretching, compression

How long can the repeated bout effect last?

Several weeks up to 6 months

Why measure muscular function?

determine muscle weakness, rehabilitation, exercise prescription, selection of exercise, research tool

What is the ability of a muscle to exert force against a resistance?

strength

What is the ability of a muscle to repeatedly exert force against a resistance?

endurance

What is the amount of work done per unit of time?

Power

What is the formula for power

P= F x V

What is the measurement of electrical activity (muscle action potential) that brings about muscle contraction?

Electromyography

What allow the velocity of limb movement to be kept nearly constant throughout a contraction?

isokinetic machines

What measures static strength and endurance by sending an electrical signal to a computer that displays the force output?

force transducers

What measure static strength and static endurance where a spring is compressed and a needle is moved to indicate the force produced?

dynamometer

What method is the most common method of measuring dynamic strength (measures 1RM)?

constant-resistance equipment

What 2 field tests can test strength and endurance?

calisthenic activities and vertical jumps

What kind of calisthenic activities are used to measure endurance and sometimes strength in the field?

sit ups, push-ups, pull-ups or flexed arm hangs

What do jump tests measure

explosive muscular power of legs

Adult females average about __ % of the static strength values of adult males in upper body locations ___ % in trunk strength, and ___ in lower-body locations

56, 64, 72

What causes the physiological differences between muscle strength in males compared to females?

greater muscle mass, larger fiber size, and larger general size

Strength is maintained until about ___ - ____ years of age

45-50

What % of strength is lost per decade in the 6th and 7th decades?

15

What causes age-related decline in strength?

loss of muscle mass, loss of contractile properties, reduced activation of motor units

What is the basis for all human movement?

Muscle contraction

What kind of skeletal muscle is under conscious control?

Voluntary

What kind of skeletal muscle has a repeating pattern of light and dark bands?

Striated

What kind of muscle assists with movement of material through hollow tubes?

Smooth

List 2 descriptions of smooth muscle

non-striated and involuntary

What kind of muscle provides the pumping action of the heart?

Cardiac

What kind of muscle is striated and involuntary?

cardiac muscle

List 4 functions of skeletal muscle:

locomotion, posture, venous return, thermogenesis

What characteristic of muscle tissue is the ability to receive and respond to stimuli?

irritability

What characteristic of muscle tissue causes the ability to respond to stimuli by shortening?

contractility

What characteristic of muscle tissue gives it the ability to lengthen or stretch?

extensibility

What characteristic of muscle tissues gives it the ability to return to resting length after stretching?

elasticity

List 4 characteristics of muscle tissue

irritability, contractility, extensibility, elasticity

How many skeletal muscles in the human body?

>600

What % of the male body weight do skeletal muscles take up?

40-45

What % of the female body weight to skeletal muscles constitute?

23-25

What attaches muscles to bone?

Tendons

What is the connective tissue that binds muscles together?

fascia

What is the delicate layer of connective tissue directly covering muscle?

epimysium

What are bundles of muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue

fasiculi

What is the connective tissue that separates fasiculi?

perimysium

What is the connective tissue that separates individual muscle fibers?

endomysium

List layers of muscle fiber from outside to inside:

epimysium, perimysium, endomysium

What muscle classification is for long muscles?

longitudinal

Biceps brachii are what kind of muscle

fusiform

gluteus medius are what kind of muscle

radiate

tibialis posterior is what kind of muscle

unipennate

gastrocnemius is what kind of muscle

bipennate

orbicular oculi is what kind of muscle

circular

What are muscle cells called?

Muscle fibers

A sarcoplasm is similar to?

cytoplasm, but has specific adaptions to serve functional needs of muscle cells, specifically increased amounts of glycogen and oxygen binding protein myoglobin

What is the organelle that wraps around myofibrils and stores calcium?

sarcoplasmic reticulum

What carries electrical signals from the sarcolemma to the interior of the muscle cell?

transverse tubules

What are small cylindrical units that are the contractile organelles and are composed of myofilaments?

myofibrils

What are the contractile (thick and thin) proteins responsible for muscle contraction?

myofilaments

What are the functional units of muscle fibers?

sarcomeres
Contains thick and thin filaments

What are the light bands that contain only thin filaments?

I Bands

What does I band stand for?

Isotropic

What are the dark bands that contain thick and thin filaments?

A bands

What does A band stand for?

anisotropic

What interrupts A bands in their midsection where there is no overlap of thick and thin filaments?

H Zone

True or false: There is no actin in the H zone

TRUE

What has no overlap of thick and thin filaments?

H zone

What is the dense line in the middle of the H zone?

M line

What anchors thin filaments to adjacent sarcomeres?

Z discs

In a cross-section of a sarcomere how many
thin
filaments surround the
thick
filaments?

6

In a cross-section of a sarcomere how many
thick
filaments surround the
thin
filaments?

3

What is the thick filament?

Myosin

Myosin heads have two reactive sites which are?

#NAME?

What is the thin filament?

Actin

What filaments make up the thin filaments?

actin, troponin, tropomyosin

Which thin filament is globular?

actin

Which thin filament is like long string?

tropomyosin, it blocks the active site on actin during relaxation

What part of thin filaments contain active sites?

actin

Which troponin does calcium attach to to reveal the active site on actin?

Troponin-C

Which band does not change in length during contraction?

A Band

What part of the sarcomere moves closer together during contraction?

Z discs

What band shortens and may even disappear during contraction?

I bands

What zone shortens and may disappear during contractions?

H zone

List in order the phases of excitation-contraction coupling:

spread of depolarization, binding of calcium to troponin, generation of force

In phase 1 of excitation-contraction coupling:

#NAME?

In phase 2 of excitation-contraction coupling:

Calcium binds to Tn-C subunit of troponin, causing exposure of actin active sites

In phase 3 of excitation-contraction coupling:

Activated myosin head binds to active site pulling the actin over the myosin and contracting the sarcomere
This is also step one of cross bridge cycle

Motor neuron is stimulated; all the muscle fibers in that motor unit contract to their fullest extent or they do not contract at all

All-Or-None principle

What is a motor neuron and the muscle fiber it innervates?

Motor unit

List in order the 4 steps of the cross-bridge cycle:

binding of myosin head to actin, power stroke, dissociation of myosin and actin, activation of myosin heads

What occurs in step one, the
binding
step of CBC?

Activated myosin head binds to actin
ADP + Pi remain bound to myosin

What occurs in step two, the
power stroke
step of CBC?

Myosin head swivels, causing displacement of actin filament

What occurs in step three, the
dissociation
step of CBC?

ATP binds to myosin
Actin and myosin dissociate

What occurs in step four, the
activation
step of CBC?

Energy from hydrolysis from ATP is used to activate myosin head
-ADP + Pi remain bound to myosin

What are 2 contractile properties of muscle fibers

fast twitch, slow twitch

What are 2 metabolic properties of muscle fibers

oxidative, glycolytic

What muscle type is innervated by alpha2 motor neurons, conduct slow and have a low recruitment threshold?

SO

What muscle fiber type is innervated by alpha1 motor neurons, conduct fast and have a high recruitment threshold?

FOG or FG

What motor neuron is small therefore recruited first?

Alpha 2

What motor neuron is larger and recruited second

Alpha 1

True or False both muscle fibers are used at all times

True, but the percentage varies.

What muscle fiber type has a small diameter, high mitochondria, high capillary density, high myoglobin content, and high oxidative enzyme activity?

SO

What muscle fiber type has a large diameter, low mitochondrial, low capillary density, low myoglobin content, and high glycolytic enzyme activity?

FG

What muscle fiber type has an intermediate diameter, an intermediate mitochondrial, capillary density, myoglobin, and oxidative enzyme activity but high PC stores, glycogen stores, and glycolytic enzyme activity?

FOG

SO fibers are ________ to fatigue.

Resistant

FG fibers are _________ to fatigue.

Quickest

FOG fibers are somewhat ________ resistant to fatigue than SO fibers and somewhat _________ resistant to fatigue than the FG fibers.

Less; More

How is fiber distribution primarily determined?

Genetically

Most individuals possess between ____ and _____ ST fibers

45% & 55%

True or False males tend to show greater variation of distribution of muscle-fibers than females

TRUE

True or False Fiber distribution changes significantly as a function of age after early childhood

False, it does not change

Muscles involved in sustained postural activity have the highest number of what kind of muscle fibers?

SO

What is the force developed when a contracting muscle acts on an object?

tension
ex. force when holding a dumbbell

What is the force exerted on a muscle?

load
ex. a dumbbell

What is the tension producing process of the contractile elements within the muscle?

contraction

What is the capability of a force (or tension) to produce rotation of a limb around a joint?

torque

What kind of contraction occurs when the tension generated by the
muscle fiber
is constant through the range of motion?

isotonic

What kind of
whole muscle
contraction occurs when the force exerted varies as the muscle shortens to accommodate change in muscle length and/or joint angle throughout the range of motion while moving a constant external load?

dynamic contraction

Are isotonic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

muscle fiber

Are dynamic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

Whole muscle

What kind of muscle contraction is a dynamic contraction producing tension during muscle
shortening
?

concentric

Concentric contractions produce positive or negative external work?

positive

What kind of contraction is a dynamic contraction producing tension while
lengthening
?

eccentric

Eccentric contractions result in negative or positive external work?

negative

What produces a greater force, eccentric or concentric?

eccentric

What kind of
muscle fiber
contraction happens when the velocity of the contraction is kept constant?

isokinetic

Are isokinetic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

muscle fiber

What kind of
whole muscle
contraction happens when the rate of limb displacement or joint rotation is held constant with the use of specialized equipment?

isokinematic

Are isokinematic contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

whole muscle

What kind of muscle contraction does not result in a length change in
muscle fiber
?

isometric

Are isometric contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

muscle fiber

What kind of
whole muscle
contraction does not cause meaningful limb displacement or joint displacement and therefore does not result in movement of the skeleton?

Static

Are static contractions muscle fiber or whole muscle contractions?

whole muscle

What kind of contraction produces zero work?

isometric

What term describes the frequency of muscle recruitment?

rate-coding

As frequency of stimulation increases in a muscle fiber what also increases?

force produced

What term describes varying the number of motor units activated?

Number-coding

Some motor units are always contracting in an alternating manner, these contractions maintain _____

muscle tone or tonus

As more force is needed more _____ are recruited

Motor units

List in order the motor neurons that are recrurited:

alpha 2 (SO), alpha 1 (FOG then FG)

List the order of the deactivation of motor neurons when stimulus has ended:

FG, FOG, SO

The max number of cross-bridges coincides with the highest force production which occurs at ___ % of resting sarcomere length.

100-120

The amount of tension produced is directly related to ____

degree of overlap of thick and thin filaments

In shortened fibers where thick and thin over-lap almost completely ___ force is produced

less

What is characterized by an increase in torque as the joint angle increases?

Ascending strength curve

What is characterized by a decrease in torque as the joint angle increases?

descending strength curve

What relationship happens when Within an muscle fiber, the amount of tension that can be exerted is related to the initial length of the sarcomeres?

length-tension-angle relationship

What relationship is this: The shortening velocity of a muscle increases as the force developed by the muscle decreases

force-velocity or power/velocity relationship

If the external force overcomes the ability of the muscle to resist it, the muscle ____

lengthens (eccentric)

What is the shape of the power-velocity relationship?

curvilinear

The power is higher in individuals with more than 50% __ fibers

FT

The power curve of the predominantly ___ fiber individuals levels off then downturns at higher velocities

ST

What relationship: When a muscle fiber is stretched and then contracted the resultant contraction is stronger than it would have been without prestretching.

elasticity-force

What relationship: The force that can be developed by a whole muscle is also related to its cross-sectional area.

Cross-sectional area

What kind of muscles are designed for high-velocity shortening?

fusiform

What kind of muscles are designed for high force geneartion

pennate, bipennate, and multipenate

List 3 sites of muscular fatigue

CNS, Peripheral Nervous system, skeletal muscle fibers

What kind of fatigue may be related to neurons in the brain or spinal cord with inhibitory input from muscle afferents innervating neurons in the bran?

Central fatigue

What kind of fatigue refers to fatigue at a site beyond the CNS including the NMJ or skeletal muscle?

Peripheral fatigue

Where would inihibition of axon terminals, deletion of neurotransmitter, or altered neurotransmitter binding to receptors that cause fatigue happen?

NMJ

Where would inability to release Ca or inability of ca to bind to troponin that causes fatigue occur?

T-Tube, SR

Where would malfunction of neurons, inhibition of voluntary effort, or psychological factors that cause fatigue occur?

CNS

Where would depletion of ATP, PC and/or glycogen, or accumulation of lactate, H, PO that cause fatigue occur?

contractile elements

What is Characterized by pain during and immediately after exercise, which may persist for several hours thought to be caused by stimulation of the pain receptors by metabolic by-products especially H+ associated with increased lactic acid levels?

Immediate-Onset Muscle Soreness

What is A condition characterized by muscle tenderness, pain on palpitation, and mechanical stiffness that appears approximately 8 hours after exercise, increases and peaks over the next 24 to 48 hours, and usually subsides within 96 hours?

Delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS):

List in order the etiology and mechanisms of muscle soreness:

high mechanical forces, structural damage, increase intracellular Ca, degradation of z-discs, inflammation, white blood cells increasing, changes in tissue osmolarity, pain (DOMS), local ischemia

What would reduced strength, power, and performance in muscles?

muscle soreness

What causes an alteration of temporal sequencing of muscles?

Muscle soreness

What are treatments for muscle soreness

NSAIDs, stretching, compression

How long can the repeated bout effect last?

Several weeks up to 6 months

Why measure muscular function?

determine muscle weakness, rehabilitation, exercise prescription, selection of exercise, research tool

What is the ability of a muscle to exert force against a resistance?

strength

What is the ability of a muscle to repeatedly exert force against a resistance?

endurance

What is the amount of work done per unit of time?

Power

What is the formula for power

P= F x V

What is the measurement of electrical activity (muscle action potential) that brings about muscle contraction?

Electromyography

What allow the velocity of limb movement to be kept nearly constant throughout a contraction?

isokinetic machines

What measures static strength and endurance by sending an electrical signal to a computer that displays the force output?

force transducers

What measure static strength and static endurance where a spring is compressed and a needle is moved to indicate the force produced?

dynamometer

What method is the most common method of measuring dynamic strength (measures 1RM)?

constant-resistance equipment

What 2 field tests can test strength and endurance?

calisthenic activities and vertical jumps

What kind of calisthenic activities are used to measure endurance and sometimes strength in the field?

sit ups, push-ups, pull-ups or flexed arm hangs

What do jump tests measure

explosive muscular power of legs

Adult females average about __ % of the static strength values of adult males in upper body locations ___ % in trunk strength, and ___ in lower-body locations

56, 64, 72

What causes the physiological differences between muscle strength in males compared to females?

greater muscle mass, larger fiber size, and larger general size

Strength is maintained until about ___ - ____ years of age

45-50

What % of strength is lost per decade in the 6th and 7th decades?

15

What causes age-related decline in strength?

loss of muscle mass, loss of contractile properties, reduced activation of motor units