The impact of submaximal fatiguing exercises on the ability to generate and sustain the maximal voluntary contraction.

ABSTRACT: Neuromuscular fatigability is a failure to produce or maintain a required torque, and commonly quantified with the decrease of maximal torque production during a few seconds-long maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). The literature shows that the MVC reduction after exercises with different torque-time integral (TTI), is often similar. However, it was shown that after a fatiguing exercise, the decline in the capacity to sustain the maximal voluntary contraction for 1 min (MVC_1-MIN) differs from the decrease in the capacity to perform a brief-MVC, suggesting that this latter can only partially assess neuromuscular fatigability. This study aims to highlight the relevance of using a sustained MVC to further explore the neuromuscular alterations induced by fatiguing exercises with di

SUBMITTER: Lebesque L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9478515 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature