Chronic eccentric exercise: Improvements in muscle strength can occur with little demand for oxygen

Eccentric contractions, the lengthening of muscle while producing force, are a common part of our everyday movements. This study presents a challenge to the accepted notion that eccentric work causes obligatory muscle injury while demonstrating that an increase in muscle strength, via eccentric work...

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Published inAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology Vol. 45; no. 2; p. R611
Main Authors Lastayo, P C, Reich, T E, Urquhart, M, Hoppeler, H, Lindstedt, S L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bethesda American Physiological Society 01.02.1999
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Exercise
Muscular system
Oxygen
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Summary:Eccentric contractions, the lengthening of muscle while producing force, are a common part of our everyday movements. This study presents a challenge to the accepted notion that eccentric work causes obligatory muscle injury while demonstrating that an increase in muscle strength, via eccentric work, can occur with little demand for oxygen.
ISSN:0363-6119
1522-1490