Tour de France / World Athletics Champs Wrap: Insights & Science
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The Physiology of Athletes
When we use energy for running so hard, you're not using oxygen. Calcium in the muscle is a storage depot of calcium which releases that calcium and doesn't get back in. And then basically it just loses its contractile ability. Plus the brain listen, thanks very much, but you've done we've done what we can, and we're actually shutting you down at this point. That's a great little bit of insight. Ther so talking omy, we talked about the physiology of athletes. One of the controversies comes from the performance of taby amason in the woman's hundred meter hurdles. She wore shoes that are normally worn by athletes in the five and the tenk
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