- How could you alter the muscle contractions you do in the weight room to increase actin-myosin cross-bridge formation?
- What two strategies can you use to better match the muscle length – force relationship during the bench press exercise (i.e. what strategies can you use to provide overload throughout your entire range of motion)?
- What dietary strategies would improve your performance on a Wingate cycle ergometer test? What dietary strategies would improve your performance on a 3 hour bike ride?
- How can you apply the concept of cross-education to a rehabilitation setting?
- Describe a strategy you could use to ensure that all muscle fibres within your quadriceps are trained during a strength training program.
- Describe two strategies you could use to enhance the rate of phosphocreatine re-synthesis following exercise.
- What energy systems would be dominant: a) for a 4th-line hockey player who plays one 30 second shift every 10 minutes during the game; b) for a defensive hockey player who has already played 20 minutes during a game and gets stuck in his own end for 4.5 minutes killing a major penalty.
- When looking at a sample of muscle fibres, what are two characteristics that would tell you they were from a very old person?
- If an athlete is suffering from an overuse injury, what principle of training would you want to emphasize and why?
- Of the major bone cells, which are activated and inhibited during exercise to eventually cause an increase in bone mineral density?
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