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Relationship Between Metabolic By-Products And Nervous System Failure/Fatigue, Tyler Mitchell Farney
Relationship Between Metabolic By-Products And Nervous System Failure/Fatigue, Tyler Mitchell Farney
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Fatigue has generally been defined as an acute impairment of exercise/sport performance that includes both an increase in the perceived effort necessary to exert a desired force or power output, and the inability to produce the desired force or power output. The majority of research to date looking at fatigue has focused upon substrate utilization, however, what is relatively unknown is the contribution the nervous system has upon fatigue. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation was to investigate potential mechanisms that relate to neural fatigue. An additional purpose was to determine if there were any relationships between metabolic by-products and …
Neural Recovery Rates Of Knee Extensors Following A Resistance Exercise Protocol, Darren Michael Polk
Neural Recovery Rates Of Knee Extensors Following A Resistance Exercise Protocol, Darren Michael Polk
LSU Master's Theses
Fatigue can manifest in the human body in a multitude of ways, one of these is neural-based fatigue. Neural-based fatigue occurs when the nerve fails to activate a muscle (Brooks et al., 2005). The purpose of this research is to investigate rates of neural recovery following a resistance exercise protocol. A pre-test consisting of a 5-second maximum voluntary isometric knee extension was performed. Next, each subject performed a resistance exercise protocol consisting of 5 sets of 10 repetitions of isokinetic knee extensions. Post-tests following the resistance exercise protocol consisted of 5-second maximum voluntary isometric knee extensions after 1, 5, 10, …