Muscle fatigue is weakness or weariness resulting from exertion or prolonged stress and the failure to maintain an expected power output. (Amussen) The process by which your body produces energy is called glycolysis. During glycolysis‚ glycogen is broken to produce creatine phosphate‚ which releases energy. The energy released catalyzes a reaction to produce ATP. The ending product of glycolysis is lactic acid‚ which is created by breaking pyruvate acid down. Then lactic acid is broken down to produce
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LABORATORY REPORT Activity 2: Twitch Contractions and Summation Name: Trisha Mora Instructor: Professor Vais Date: 7/15/14 PREDICTIONS Effect of Muscle Fiber Length on Contraction 1. As muscle fiber length increases: Contraction Force Increases. Effect of Stimulation Frequency on Contraction 2. As the frequency of stimulation increases‚ the force of contraction: Increases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Measurement of Threshold Stimulus 1. Dependent Variable is the contraction force 2. Independent
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Physiology Assignment Physiology Assignment Short term responses One short term response when playing basketball is when your face starts to go red‚ this happens because the body gets too hot and it tries to cool the body down by bringing blood to the surface of the skin to let some heat out and the skin also produces sweat to let out heat‚ therefore the skin surface goes red. Another short term response to physical activity is that your breathing rate and heart rate increases‚ the reason
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muscle increases‚ its strength of contraction also increases until the muscle reaches maximal force generated. 12. The way the skeletal muscles attached to skeletal system makes them slightly stretched. By changing the length‚ the arrangement of myosin & actin is less optimal causing less favorable binding of Ca++ 14. Due to wave summation‚ the muscle will contract more rapidly. 15. Producing a steady increase in muscle force by increasing the # of active motor units 16. After prolonged activity
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Skeletal Muscle Physiology Activity 1 1. Skeletal muscle fiber- long‚ cylindrical cell with multiple oval nuclei arranged just beneath the sarcolemma Motor unit- all of the muscle cells controlled by a single motor neuron Skeletal muscle twitch- a single stimulus-contraction-relaxation cycle in a skeletal muscle Electrical stimulus- uses an electrical current to cause a single muscle or a group of muscles to contract Latent period- the time between the stimulation of a muscle and the start
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causing them to overstretch (Dias et al.‚ 2015). When the sarcomere becomes overstretched damage occurs and therefore an injury to the muscle is caused (Proske & Morgan‚ 2001). When participating in repeated resistance training‚ the number of actin and myosin filaments increase as well as the number of
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filaments. Now‚ myofibrils shorten‚ tis makes muscles contract and allows for movement. Some functions of musces in our bodies include motion‚ maintenance of posture‚ and heat production. Macromolecules that aid muscle contraction are the proteins myosin (thick filaments) and actin (thin filaments)‚ the way that this is done is that they overlap each other and during contraction which makes the muscle “shorten”. Hypothesis: As more weight added to the load that a muscle is lifting‚ the muscle will
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EXERCISE 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology Student Name: Student ID#: ACTIVITY 1: The Muscle Twitch and the Latent Period Answers 1. The latent period of the skeletal muscle that was tested in this lab simulation was a. about 1 second. b. less than 1 msec. c. between 2-3 msec. d. variable‚ depending on the voltage that was applied to it. C. 2. True or False: Another name for a muscle cell is “myofibril.” False 3. The largest active force that could be generated in the muscle
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Name: Cassidy Lessig Activity 1 The Muscle Twitch and the Latent Period 1. 1. Define the terms skeletal muscle fiber‚ motor unit‚ skeletal muscle twitch‚ electrical stimulus‚ and latent period 2. What .is the role of acetylcholine in a skeletal muscle contraction? Skeletal muscle fiber-Skeletal muscle fibers are the individual cells that are bound together in fascicles. Many fascicles are bound together to make a muscle Motor unit-A motor unit consists of a motor neuron and all of the muscle
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EXERCISE 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology Student Name: ___________________________ Student ID#: _____________________ Student instructions: Follow the step-by-step instructions for this exercise found in your lab manual and record your answers in the spaces below. Submit this completed document by the assignment due date found in the Syllabus. Rename this document to include your first and last name prior to submitting‚ e.g. Exercise2_JohnSmith.doc. Please make sure that your answers
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