{"title":"The nature of the perception of effort at sea level and high altitude.","authors":"D H Horstman, R Weiskopf, S Robinson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to compare perceptual responses (RPE) and selected physiological measures during both short term and prolonged exercise of equal relative intensities at 4300 m to those at sea level. Specifically, we compared results obtained (n=20) for 6 min of exercise at 60, 80 and 95% VO2max and at 5 min intervals during exercise to exhaustion at 85% VO2max. At 4300 m, VO2max was reduced 19%, while VEmax and Rmax increased 17 and 8%, respectively. HRmax and RPEmax was unchanged. For any given relative exercise intensity, VO2 and absolute exercise intensity (kpm-min-1) were reduced, while VE was about 12% and R about 7% greater at 4300 m; HR was unchanged. At 4300 m, RPE at the lower intensities of submaximal exercise and early during prolonged exercise were significantly less than at sea level. These differences were reduced and finally eliminated as exercise intensity increased toward maximal or as prolonged exercise continued to exhaustion. Endurance time to exhaustion at 4300 m was not different from that at sea level. To account for the perceptual differences between exercise at 4300 m an sea level, we proposed that local factors (muscular strain) exert greater influence on the perception of effort at exercise intensities which do not greatly stress ventilation and circulation, while central factors exert greater influence on the perception of effort at exercise intensities at which tachypnea and tachycardia are of sufficient magnitude to be perceived as extremely stressful.</p>","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 2","pages":"150-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11694853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The energy cost of cross-country skiing among elite competitors.","authors":"J D MacDougall, R Hughson, J R Sutton, J R Moroz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The energy costs of skiing with the diagonal stride technique was investigated in 15 members of the men's and women's national cross-country ski teams and in 5 recreational skiers. Oxygen uptake was measured directly by means of a portable bag-method for each subject during level skiing at 3 different skiing speeds. The oxygen cost of double poling vs. diagonal stride techniques was also measured in 3 subjects during level skiing. Although a strong linear relationship was found between VO2 and speed of skiing (r = 0.868, p less than 0.001), there was considerable variation even among elite competitors. The VO2-skiing speed relationship was parallel to that obtained for running, but the O2 cost of skiing was found to be 10--12 ml/kg in excess of that predicted for level running at the same speed. On flat terrain, the O2 cost of the double poling technique as used in fast skiing was found to be higher than that for diagonal striding.</p>","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 3","pages":"270-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11726312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growth hormone response to continuous and intermittent exercise.","authors":"A Karagiorgos, J F Garcia, G A Brooks","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We tested the hypothesis that human growth hormone (hGH) secretion during exercise is related to anaerobic metabolism, and therefore blood lactic acid (LA). Ten males (20 to 30 years) were observed during 40 min of continuous cycle ergometer exercise (CE, 45% of the minimum load which elicited VO2max), and during 20 bouts of intermittent exercise (IE, 1 min on/off at 2x the CE work rate). Continuous and intermittent exercises were used as these are known to result in different LA responses. Resting hGH was 1 to 2 ng/ml. After a lag period, hGH was significantly elevated by 15 min of exercise and thereafter rose continuously in both IE and CE. During IE hGH tended to be higher (12.1 +/- 1.4) than during CE (9.7 +/- 1.6 ng/ml, X +/- SEM), but the difference was not significant. In both exercise conditions free fatty acids demonstrated an initial fall and then a continuous secondary rise with higher peak values during CE (0.52 +/- .06) THAN DURING IE (0.39 +/- .05 mEq/l). Pyruvate (PY) and lactate rose initially during CE, but then declined before reaching steady levels. During IE, LA and PY increased continuously reaching values 3x greater than during CE. Alanine rose progressively during CE and IE, but was significantly higher during IE (442.2 +/- 29.3 vs. 367.9 +/- 30.9 muM). Glucose also tended to be higher during IE (4.67 +/- 0.32) than during CE (4.25 +/- 0.28 mM). Considering CE and IE either together or separately, no physiologically significant correlation was found between hGH and metabolite concentrations, rectal T, or O2 deficit. The results are interpreted to mean that hGH response to work is not directly related to \"anaerobiosis\".</p>","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 3","pages":"302-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11727490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compliance of post myocardial infarction patients to exercise programs.","authors":"N B Oldridge","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 4","pages":"373-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11733178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of training: reinfarction and death--an interim report.","authors":"P A Rechnitzer","doi":"10.1249/00005768-197901140-00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1249/00005768-197901140-00018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 4","pages":"382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1249/00005768-197901140-00018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11733180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The synchronization of muscle activity and body segment movements during a running cycle.","authors":"B C Elliott, B A Blanksby","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Locomotor patterns of running were studied using computerization to synchronize electromyography (EMG) and cinematography (CMG). Surface electrodes monitored the muscle action potentials from rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, biceps femoris, semitendinosus, semimembranosus, triceps surae and tibialis anterior muscles as 10 female subjects ran on a treadmill at speeds of 2.5 m/s and 3.5 m/s. Averaged integrated electromyograms were formulated to represent action potential levels for various sub-sections of the running cycle. Beginning at foot contact, the running cycle was dominated initially by muscle activity concerned with stabilization. The co-contraction of vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, semimembranosus, tibialis anterior, biceps femoris and triceps surae were associated with clockwise rotation (running from left to right) of the thigh, leg and foot in providing a stable base during the early support phase. Lower limb stabilization then gave way to the powerful driving thrust of the mid and late support phases. This period was characterized by increases in the activity levels from triceps surae and biceps femoris. The co-ordination of inertial effects and secondary muscular activity was associated with leg flexion as the thigh changed direction and with leg extension during the swing phase of running. This conclusion was supported by both EMG and resultant muscle moment of force date. Increased activity from semimembranosus and semitendinosus occurred with cessation of thigh flexion and leg extension prior to the subsequent heel strike. Tibialis anterior also eccentrically contracted to place the foot on the treadmill under control. The increase in the running speed was related to an increase in muscle action potential (in parts of the cycle) where the particular muscle was functional. This increase was paralleled kinetically by an increase in the resultant muscle moment of force level.</p>","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 4","pages":"322-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11733400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy statement regarding the use of human subjects and informed consent.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 4","pages":"xxii-xxiii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11733587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstracts of the 1979 American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting and Pan Pacific Conference. May 24-26, 1979, Sheraton-Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"11 1","pages":"73-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11262172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac output during rest and exercise in desert heat.","authors":"L. Myhre, I. Oddershede, D. B. Dill, M. Yousef","doi":"10.1249/00005768-197901130-00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1249/00005768-197901130-00002","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiac output and stroke volume were measured in two environments and at metabolic rates ranging from rest to the maximum rate that could be sustained for 25 minutes. One environment was indoors at about 23 degrees C, the other outdoors in desert sunshine and low water vapor pressure. The age range of the one female and four of the male subjects was from 19 to 40; the fifth male subject was 85 years old. Cardiac output was the same in the two environments; stroke volume was less at higher metabolic rates in the heat. The cardiac output for the old man was about one-tenth less and stroke volume about 20 ml less than that observed for the same work 50 years earlier.","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"115 1","pages":"234-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74850217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muscle fiber composition and performance capacities of women.","authors":"C. J. Campbell, A. Bonen, R. Kirby, A. Belcastro","doi":"10.1249/00005768-197901130-00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1249/00005768-197901130-00007","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the fast-twitch (FT) fiber composition in muscle was a) correlated with performance capacities, b) related to the trainability of the subjects, and c) whether the FT fiber composition could be predicted with standard laboratory tests. From twenty-four young women (ages 24.3 +/- 3.0 yrs) muscle biopsies were obtained from the vastus lateralis of both the left and right legs. In addition, each subject completed four laboratory tests: i) a maximal oxygen intake test on the cycle ergometer, ii) a high-kp power test, iii) a low-kp power test, and iv) a Sargent jump. Prior to training the correlations between %FT fibers and each of the tests (r equal to or less than 0.19) were not significant (P less than 0.05). After training anaerobically (N = 20) significant improvements (P less than 0.05) occurred in a) the high-kp test (delta = + 0.12 +/- 0.02 kpm/sec.kg) b) the low-kp test (delta = + 0.10 +/- 0.01 kpm/sec.kg) and c) the Sargent jump (delta = + 2.5 +/- 1.1 cm). However, these training-induced changes (delta) were not correlated with %FT fiber composition (r equal to or less than 0.35), nor were the post-training performances on the tests correlated with the %FT fibers (r equal to or less than 0.12). Performance capacities before and after training were not significantly different in groups with a low %FT fiber composition (35.8 +/- 1.6%) or a high %FT fiber composition (63.6 +/- 2.2%). None of the performance tests either singly, or in combination in a multiple regression equation, provided a suitable prediction of the FT muscle fiber composition. The results of this study indicate that athletic performances and/or susceptibility for training cannot be determined a priori from simple measurements of muscle fiber composition.","PeriodicalId":18528,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and science in sports","volume":"42 1","pages":"260-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77258015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}