ArticleApplied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme2010
Do neuromuscular adaptations occur in endurance-trained boys and men?
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- Children'sEuropean journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- Can neuromuscular differences manifest by early adolescence in males between predominantly endurance and strength sports?European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Joint position and force senses in young female tennis players and untrained adolescents.PloS one · 2024Article
- Estimation of Lower Extremity Muscle Activity in Gait Using the Wearable Inertial Measurement Units and Neural Network.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Influence of Growth, Maturation and Resistance Training on Muscle-Tendon and Neuromuscular Adaptations: A Narrative Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Effect of a Simulated Match on Lower Limb Neuromuscular Performance in Youth Footballers-A Two Year Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Reliability of Electromyographic Assessment of Biceps Brachii and Triceps Brachii in Cricketers.Journal of chiropractic medicine · 2018Article
- Comment on: "Are Prepubertal Children Metabolically Comparable to Well-Trained Adult Endurance Athletes?"Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Article
- Neuromuscular interactions around the knee in children, adults and elderly.World journal of orthopedics · 2014Review
- Neuromuscular control of goal-directed ankle movements differs for healthy children and adults.European journal of applied physiology · 2014Article
- Child-adult differences in the kinetics of torque development.Journal of sports sciences · 2013Article
- Child-adult differences in muscle activation--a review.Pediatric exercise science · 2012Review
- The rate of force development scaling factor (RFD-SF): protocol, reliability, and muscle comparisons.Experimental brain research · 2011Article
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Abstract
Most research on the effects of endurance training has focused on endurance training's health-related benefits and metabolic effects in both children and adults. The purpose of this study was to examine the neuromuscular effects of endurance training and to investigate whether they differ in children (9.0-12.9 years) and adults (18.4-35.6 years). Maximal isometric torque, rate of torque development (RTD), rate of muscle activation (Q30), electromechanical delay (EMD), and time to peak torque and peak RTD were determined by isokinetic dynamometry and surface electromyography (EMG) in elbow and knee flexion and extension. The subjects were 12 endurance-trained and 16 untrained boys, and 15 endurance-trained and 20 untrained men. The adults displayed consistently higher peak torque, RTD, and Q30, in both absolute and normalized values, whereas the boys had longer EMD (64.7+/-17.1 vs. 56.6+/-15.4 ms) and time to peak RTD (98.5+/-32.1 vs. 80.4+/-15.0 ms for boys and men, respectively). Q30, normalized for peak EMG amplitude, was the only observed training effect (1.95+/-1.16 vs. 1.10+/-0.67 ms for trained and untrained men, respectively). This effect could not be shown in the boys. The findings show normalized muscle strength and rate of activation to be lower in children compared with adults, regardless of training status. Because the observed higher Q30 values were not matched by corresponding higher performance measures in the trained men, the functional and discriminatory significance of Q30 remains unclear. Endurance training does not appear to affect muscle strength or rate of force development in either men or boys.
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