Energetics of Muscular Exercise

• Main Author: Ferretti, Guido (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Health promotion.; Endocrinology.; Metabolic diseases.; Sports medicine.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Sports Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Metabolic Diseases.

This book discusses the maximal power and capacity of the three major biochemical pathways ­- aerobic (oxygen consumption), anaerobic lactic (muscle lactate accumulation in absence of oxygen consumption), and anaerobic alactic (phosphocreatine hydrolysis) metabolism - as well as the factors that lim...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory and Historical Remarks
• Aerobic Metabolism and the Steady-State Concept
• Exercise Transients
• Maximal Oxygen Consumption
• Critical Power
• Supramaximal Exercise.