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Effects of a three weeks lasting short-term, high intensity training (sprint training) upon contractile parameters and selected enzyme activities of energy-supplying metabolism in slow soleus and fast rectus femoris muscle were investigated in female rats. Isometric twitch contraction time decreased in the soleus muscle. Maximum tetanic tension was found increased in soleus and rectus femoris muscle. Increases in hexokinase and citrate synthetase activities were induced in both muscles. In soleus muscle there was also an increase of glycogen phosphorylase, triosephosphate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase activities. Increases in the activity of the reference enzyme of fatty acid oxidation as known to be typical for endurance exercise, were neither found in rectus femoris nor in soleus muscle.
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Staudte, H.W., Exner, G.U. & Pette, D. Effects of short-term, high intensity (Sprint) training on some contractile and metabolic characteristics of fast and slow muscle of the rat. Pflugers Arch. 344, 159–168 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00586549
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