Muscle fatigue is the decline in physical ability to generate force. This can be caused by vigorous exercise over an extended period of time. The muscles need to have maximum voluntary action to perform actions. Muscle fatigue is when the muscle activity exceeds the tissue substrate and oxygenation capacity. (Biology-online.org, 2009) caused by persistent actions or the repeated action over a long period of time.
There are two main energy systems within the body. A system with oxygen used, called aerobic and the system without oxygen, anaerobic energy system. Aerobic is used for short-term and fast paced exercise.(For example: sprinting) Anaerobic is used for long-term and slow paced exercise.(For example: running a marathon). Anaerobic …show more content…
The independent variable was the amount repetitions done. The dependent variable was the amount of bicep curls achieved within the minute repetition. The hypothesis states that, if the amount of repetitions increased then the amount of bicep curls would decrease due to muscle fatigue. Throughout this experiment there were three things that remained constant. The first was weights used for the experiment remained a constant 2 kg. The second was the time used for each repetition and rest period, these stayed constant at 1 minute each. The third constant was same arm used for the test, all the participants were right handed thus all fatigued their right bicep …show more content…
The participant then record the amount of bicep curls done in the minute and put the weight down for a minutes rest. the participant took this time to shake out or stretch the muscles that were being used. After the minute of rest the participants were asked to pick up the weight and were asked to do as many full extension bicep curls as they can in a minute. This minute on minute off set up was repeated for a total of 5 times. Once all 5 participants had lifted for a total of 5 minutes on with 5 minutes of rest, then the average of each rep was calculated and the amount of change recorded. (see Appendix A- for
There are two main energy systems within the body. A system with oxygen used, called aerobic and the system without oxygen, anaerobic energy system. Aerobic is used for short-term and fast paced exercise.(For example: sprinting) Anaerobic is used for long-term and slow paced exercise.(For example: running a marathon). Anaerobic …show more content…
The independent variable was the amount repetitions done. The dependent variable was the amount of bicep curls achieved within the minute repetition. The hypothesis states that, if the amount of repetitions increased then the amount of bicep curls would decrease due to muscle fatigue. Throughout this experiment there were three things that remained constant. The first was weights used for the experiment remained a constant 2 kg. The second was the time used for each repetition and rest period, these stayed constant at 1 minute each. The third constant was same arm used for the test, all the participants were right handed thus all fatigued their right bicep …show more content…
The participant then record the amount of bicep curls done in the minute and put the weight down for a minutes rest. the participant took this time to shake out or stretch the muscles that were being used. After the minute of rest the participants were asked to pick up the weight and were asked to do as many full extension bicep curls as they can in a minute. This minute on minute off set up was repeated for a total of 5 times. Once all 5 participants had lifted for a total of 5 minutes on with 5 minutes of rest, then the average of each rep was calculated and the amount of change recorded. (see Appendix A- for