ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2014
Eccentric exercise-induced muscle damage of pre-adolescent and adolescent boys in comparison to young men.
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- Building for the Future: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Eccentric Resistance Training on Measures of Physical Performance in Youth Athletes.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Pooled it
- Differences in time to task failure and fatigability between children and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- Neuromuscular fatigue differences between prepubertal boys and men after maximal concentric versus eccentric isokinetic knee extensions.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
- Intensified training in adolescent female athletes: a crossover study of Greek yogurt effects on indices of recovery.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2022Trial
- Effects of Post-Exercise Whey Protein Consumption on Recovery Indices in Adolescent Swimmers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Eccentric cycling is more efficient in reducing fat mass than concentric cycling in adolescents with obesity.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2019Trial
- Effects of Maximal Concentric Contractions on Myotendinous Mechanical Properties in Prepubertal Boys.European journal of sport science · 2026Article
- Eccentric exercise: Muscle damage to the new normal.Journal of sport and health science · 2026Article
- The Impact of an Acrobatics-Based Curriculum on Motor Fitness in Adolescents.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation producing low evoked force elicits the repeated bout effect on muscle damage markers of the elbow flexors.Sports medicine and health science · 2025Article
- Influence of puberty on high intensity exercise induced skeletal muscle damage and inflammatory response in sedentary boys.Sports medicine and health science · 2025Article
- The acute and repeated bout effects of multi-joint eccentric exercise on physical function and balance in older adults.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- The Contralateral Repeated Bout Effect of Elbow Flexors Is Not Observed in Young Women Following Mild Muscle Damage from Eccentric Exercises.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The relationship between external and internal load parameters in 3 × 3 basketball tournaments.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Eccentric Exercise: Adaptations and Applications for Health and Performance.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2021Review
- Diffusion tensor imaging indices of acute muscle damage are augmented after exercise in peripheral arterial disease.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- High-Intensity Multimodal Training for Young People: It's Time to Think Inside the Box!Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Pathophysiology of exercise-induced muscle damage and its structural, functional, metabolic, and clinical consequences.Physiological research · 2020Review
- Plantar flexor muscle-tendon unit length and stiffness do not influence neuromuscular fatigue in boys and men.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- Effect of Long-Duration Adventure Races on Cardiac Damage Biomarker Release and Muscular Function in Young Athletes.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study compared changes in indirect muscle damage markers after maximal eccentric exercise of the elbow flexors (EF) among pre-adolescent (9-10 years), adolescent (14-15 years) and post-adolescent (20-25 years) men to test the hypothesis that the magnitude of muscle damage would increase with increase in age.
methodsThirteen untrained men of each age group performed two bouts (ECC1, ECC2) of 30 maximal EF eccentric contractions. Several indirect muscle damage markers were measured from the exercised arm before, immediately after, and 1-5 days post-exercise. Changes in maximal voluntary concentric contraction torque of the EF (MVC), range of motion of the elbow joint, upper arm circumference (CIR), muscle passive stiffness, muscle soreness, plasma creatine kinase activity and myoglobin concentration after ECC1 and ECC2 were compared amongst groups by a mixed-design two-way ANOVA.
resultsMVC before exercise was smaller (P < 0.05) for pre-adolescent (8.9 ± 1.9 Nm) than adolescent (25.1 ± 3.9 Nm) and adult (35.3 ± 4.6 Nm), and for adolescent than adult. Changes in all variables after ECC1 were smaller (P < 0.05) for pre-adolescent and adolescent when compared with adult, and all except CIR changes were smaller (P < 0.05) for pre-adolescent than adolescent. After ECC2, changes in all variables were smaller (P < 0.05) than those after ECC1 for all groups, but the magnitude of the changes was different among groups (P < 0.05) in the same way as that after ECC1.
conclusionThese results indicate that the magnitude of muscle damage is increased from pre-adolescent, adolescent to post-adolescent men.
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