Influence of muscle fiber type and pedal frequency on oxygen uptake kinetics of heavy exercise |
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Authors: | Barstow Thomas J; Jones Andrew M; Nguyen Paul H; Casaburi Richard |
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Abstract: | Barstow, Thomas J., Andrew M. Jones, Paul H. Nguyen, andRichard Casaburi. Influence of muscle fiber type and pedal frequency on oxygen uptake kinetics of heavy exercise.J. Appl. Physiol. 81(4):1642-1650, 1996.We tested the hypothesis that the amplitude ofthe additional slow component ofO2 uptake(O2) during heavy exerciseis correlated with the percentage of type II (fast-twitch) fibers inthe contracting muscles. Ten subjects performed transitions to a workrate calculated to require aO2 equal to 50% betweenthe estimated lactate (Lac) threshold and maximalO2 (50%).Nine subjects consented to a muscle biopsy of the vastus lateralis. Toenhance the influence of differences in fiber type among subjects,transitions were made while subjects were pedaling at 45, 60, 75, and90 rpm in different trials. Baseline O2 was designed to besimilar at the different pedal rates by adjusting baseline work ratewhile the absolute increase in work rate above the baseline was thesame. The O2 response after the onset of exercise was described by a three-exponential model. Therelative magnitude of the slow component at the end of 8-min exercisewas significantly negatively correlated with %type I fibers at everypedal rate (r = 0.64 to 0.83, P < 0.05-0.01). Furthermore,the gain of the fast component forO2 (asml · min1 · W1)was positively correlated with the %type I fibers across pedal rates(r = 0.69-0.83). Increase inpedal rate was associated with decreased relative stress of theexercise but did not affect the relationships between%fiber type and O2parameters. The relative contribution of the slow component was alsosignificantly negatively correlated with maximalO2(r = 0.65), whereas the gainfor the fast component was positively associated(r = 0.68-0.71 across rpm). Theamplitude of the slow component was significantly correlated with netend-exercise Lac at all four pedal rates(r = 0.64-0.84), but Lac was notcorrelated with %type I (P > 0.05).We conclude that fiber type distribution significantly affects both thefast and slow components ofO2 during heavy exerciseand that fiber type and fitness may have both codependent andindependent influences on the metabolic and gas-exchange responses toheavy exercise. |
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