Cardiorespiratory responses of healthy middle-aged men to steady-state positive and negative work performed on a cycle ergometer

The physiological responses of negative work involving predominantly eccentric muscle contraction were compared to positive work involving predominantly concentric muscle contraction in twelve older healthy subjects between 39 and G5 years of age. A motorized cycle ergometer was used for steady stat...

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Main Author: Chung, Frank
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27408