HESC1511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Arterial Stiffness, Glycolysis, Weight Training
13 Sep 2018
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Lecture 11 - 29/08/18 - resistance training 1. Prt - a form of exercise training where participants work against an external force to increase muscle strength, endurance and power. Resistance training = strength training = weight training. Hypertrophy - strength - power - muscular endurance. Objectives of resistance training: weight lifting and powerlifting competitions, body building to maximise muscular development, fitness and health enhancement, physical therapy for rehabilitation from injury or disease, sport specific resistance training to maximise sport performance. For long lasting change, stimulus needs to be systematic and ongoing: neural, muscular, cardiovascular, skeletal. Adapetion in first ~4 weeks of training are predominantly neural. Neural factors include: greater efficiency in agonist/antagonist recruitment patterns, able to activate more motor units within the muscle. Increased motor unit firing rates: faster rate of discharge. Improved motor unit synchronisation: lowered neural inhibitory reflexes (neuromuscular inhibition) Evidence supproting a neural contribution to the increase in strength with resistance.
