Stretch-Shortening Cycle Fatigue

Neuromuscular Aspects of Sport Performance

Volumn 17, Issue , 2010, Pages 183-215

  Nicol, Caroline ^a   Komi, Paavo V ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chain of processes leading to voluntary movement; Experimental settings short and long term SSC fatiguing protocols; Fascicle tendon interaction muscle (fascicle) tendon interaction of interest for a decade; Fatigue definition, applying to repeated SSC loading; Fatigue during course of exercise; Neuromuscular fatigue a complex phenomenon; Neuromuscular fatigue during isolated eccentric actions; Potential sites of impairments, links in long chain voluntary motor centers in brain to contractile filaments in single muscle fibers; Repeated maximum concentric and eccentric actions on isometric F T curve of bilateral leg extension; Stretch shortening cycle fatigue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861347594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324822.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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