Neuromuscular Impact of Acute Hypertrophic Resistance Loading with And Without Blood-Flow Restriction.

Exploring acute neuromuscular fatigue induced by different modalities of resistance exercise would help understand the adaptation subsequent to specific training programs. Therefore, we investigated the acute impact of high-intensity and low-intensity blood flow-restricted resistance exercise on the development of explosive torque throughout the torque-time curve. Seventeen healthy, young participants were included in a randomized, counterbalanced within-subjects design study, in which participants underwent two experimental conditions, separated by a 1-wk period.

Sexual dimorphism in heart rate recovery from peak exercise.

Purpose: There is lack of consensus on whether sex, per se, affects heart rate recovery (HRR). To discriminate between the role of sex and that of cardiovascular fitness on HRR, we compared two groups of male and female participants matched for age and peak oxygen uptake (VO) percentile.

Methods: Forty healthy individuals with above-average cardiovascular fitness (VO >50th percentile), aged 18-27 years (23 men; 17 women), performed maximal cycle-ergometer tests with cardiorespiratory measurements.

Analysis of power output time series in response to supramaximal exercise: an approach through dynamic factor analysis.

The responses to supramaximal exercise testing have been traditionally analyzed by means of standard parametric and nonparametric statistics. Unfortunately, these statistical approaches do not allow insight into the pattern of variation of a given parameter over time. The purpose of this study was to determine if the application of dynamic factor analysis (DFA) allowed discriminating different patterns of power output (PO), during supramaximal exercise, in two groups of children engaged in competitive sports: swimmers and soccer players.

Between-day variability of net and gross oxygen uptake during graded treadmill walking: effects of different walking intensities on the reliability of locomotion economy.

There have been few studies of clinical relevance conducted on the reliability of walking economy. This study was designed to determine if walking economy reproducibility increases as a function of walking intensity, and if there is any advantage in expressing walking economy as net oxygen uptake (VO2) rather than gross VO2 for reproducibility purposes. Sixteen participants (9 males, 7 females; mean age, 22.