Should postactivation potentiation be the goal of your warm-up?

Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 546-550

  MacIntosh, Brian R ^a   Robillard, Marie Eve ^a   Tomaras, Elias K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex training; Fatigue; Myosin light chains; Posttetanic potentiation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860478141     PISSN: 17155312     EISSN: 17155320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/H2012-016     Document Type: Article

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