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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
卷 113, 期 3, 页码 559-566出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-012-2462-1
关键词
Central fatigue; Peripheral fatigue; Recovery; Voluntary activation
资金
- French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- University of Ottawa Admissions Scholarship
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
Exercise-induced fatigue causes changes within the central nervous system that decrease force production capacity in fatigued muscles. The impact on unrelated, non-exercised muscle performance is still unclear. The primary aim of this study was to examine the impact of a bilateral forearm muscle contraction on the motor function of the distal and unrelated ankle plantar-flexor muscles. The secondary aim was to compare the impact of maximal and submaximal forearm contractions on the non-fatigued ankle plantar-flexor muscles. Maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) of the forearm and ankle plantar-flexor muscles as well as voluntary activation (VA) and twitch torque of the ankle plantar-flexor muscles were assessed pre-fatigue and throughout a 10-min recovery period. Maximal (100 % MVC) and submaximal (30 % MVC) sustained isometric handgrip contractions caused a decreased handgrip MVC (to 49.3 +/- A 15.4 and 45.4 +/- A 11.4 % of the initial MVC for maximal and submaximal contraction, respectively) that remained throughout the 10-min recovery period. The fatigue protocols also caused a decreased ankle plantar-flexor MVC (to 77 +/- A 8.3 and 92.4 +/- A 6.2 % of pre-fatigue MVC for maximal and submaximal contraction, respectively) and VA (to 84.3 +/- A 15.7 and 97.7 +/- A 16.1 % of pre-fatigue VA for maximal and submaximal contraction, respectively). These results suggest central fatigue created by the fatiguing handgrip contraction translated to the performance of the non-exercised ankle muscles. Our results also show that the maximal fatigue protocol affected ankle plantar-flexor MVC and VA more severely than the submaximal protocol, highlighting the task-specificity of neuromuscular fatigue.
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