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ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2024

Boys-men mean-power-frequency differences in progressive exercise to exhaustion, confounded by variability and adiposity.

Raffy Dotan, Stacey Woods, Jordan Langille, Bareket Falk

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Raffy DotanKinesiology Department, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada. rdotan@brocku.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6870-2872
Stacey WoodsKinesiology Department, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada.
Jordan LangilleKinesiology Department, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada.
Bareket FalkKinesiology Department, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada.

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backgroundOnly scant research has compared children's mean power frequency (MPF) to adults', with a clear overview still lacking. A significant obstacle has been MPF's high variability, which this study aimed to overcome by elucidating the MPF characteristics distinguishing boys from men in progressive exhaustive exercise.

methodsElectromyographic (EMG) data of 20 men (23.5 ± 2.5yrs) and 17 boys (10.2 ± 1.0 yrs), who performed progressively exhausting, intermittent isometric knee extensions, were subjected to secondary MPF analysis. Participants' vastus lateralis MPF data series were transformed to third-order polynomial regressions and expressed as percentages of the peak polynomial MPF values (%MPF

resultsNo overall interaction or group effects could be shown between the %MPF

conclusionsThe boys were lower than the men in both the observed and, more so, in the adiposity-corrected MPF values that presumably estimate muscle-level MPF. The boys' shallower MPF rise and decline conform to children's claimed type-II motor-unit activation and/or compositional deficits and their related known advantage in muscular endurance.

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Muscle ContractionMuscle, SkeletalAdiposityAdultChildElectromyographyHumansIsometric ContractionMaleQuadriceps MuscleChild–adult differencesEMG thresholdEnduranceFatigueMotor-unit activationNeuromotor control

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