Muscle and Exercise Physiology (Hardcover)

Section I: Skeletal Muscle Morphology 1. Body Composition and Muscle Mass 2. Skeletal Muscle Morphology 3. Mechanisms of Muscle Contraction and Relaxation 4. Motor Units and Muscle Receptors

Section II: Muscle Energetics and its Performance 5. Muscle Energetics 6. Muscle Efficiency 7. Muscle Function: Strength, Speed, and, Fatigabilit 8. Critical Power: Possibly the most important fatigue threshold in

Section III: Muscle Metabolism and Exercise Physiology 9. Cardio-respiratory Responses to Exercise 10. Carbohydrate Metabolism During Exercise 11. Lipid Metabolism 12. Exercise, Immunity and Illness 13. ROS Production During Exercise 14. Muscle as an Endocrine Organ

Section IV: Muscle Adaptation to Exercise 15. The Evolution of Skeletal Muscle Plasticity in Re-sponse to Physical Activity and In-activity 16. Muscle Blood Flow and Vascularization in Response to Exercise and Training 17. Oxygen Uptake Kinetics as a Marker of Muscle Metabolic Stability: The Impact of Endurance Training 18. Human Aging - Impact on Muscle Force and Power Output 19. Bone and Exercise

Section V: Heart Muscle and Exercise 20. Functional morphology of the cardiac myocyte 21. Coronary Blood Flow 22. Cardiac Energetics 23. Regulation of Heart Rate and Blood Pressure During Exercise in Humans 24. Exercise and heart failure