Factors playing a role in fatigue can be classified into 2 categories. Define those two categories and provide an example of each.
What will be an ideal response?
Central fatigue, peripheral fatigue. Central fatigue arises in the central nervous system. Peripheral fatigue arises anywhere between the neuromuscular junction and the contractile elements of the muscle. Examples of central fatigue: subjective feeling of tiredness and a desire to cease activity. Example of peripheral fatigue is depletion of muscle glycogen stores, increases in inorganic phosphate concentration, or ion imbalance. See Figure 12.10 in the chapter.
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A) It is decreased due to increased skeletal muscular pump activity B) It is increased due to increased skeletal muscular pump activity C) It is increased due to decreased skeletal muscular pump activity D) It is decreased due to decreased skeletal muscular pump activity
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