Aerobic fitness, muscle efficiency, and motor unit recruitment during ramp exercise

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 402-408

  Boone, Jan ^a,b   Koppo, Katrien ^a   Barstow, Thomas J ^c   Bouckaert, Jacques ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cycling; Muscle fiber; Oxygen uptake; Surface emg

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; BICYCLING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149188902     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181b0f2e2     Document Type: Article

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