Muscle damage responses of the elbow flexors to four maximal eccentric exercise bouts performed every 4 weeks

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 267-275

  Chen, Trevor C ^a   Chen, Hsin Lian ^a   Lin, Ming Ju ^a   Wu, Chang Jun ^a   Nosaka, Kazunori ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Delayed onset muscle soreness; Length tension relationship; Muscle damage; Muscle strength; Range of motion; Repeated bout effect

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELBOW FLEXION; EXERCISE INTENSITY; EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION;

ELBOW; ELBOW JOINT; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349173711     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-009-1016-7     Document Type: Article

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