Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Håkan Westerblad from the Karolinska Insitute in Sweden. Håkan is a massive name in the field examining the mechanisms of muscle fatigue. The first 20 min is a general discussion of fatigue during exercise which is suitable for a general audience. Then it becomes more complex as as we discuss the mechanisms causing fatigue.  

0:00. Introduction 

0:56. His background, semi-retired, Scandinavian research 

5:36. Definition of fatigue 

7:39. Potential sites of fatigue. Central vs peripheral fatigue. 

10:34. Fatigue during exercise in the heat. 

14:02. Eccentric/concentric contractions and force/fatigue 

17:22. Eccentric exercise and muscle soreness 

18:16. Lactic acid and delayed muscle soreness 

20:26. Mechanisms of skeletal muscle fatigue. 

24:35. Methods in muscle and humans fibers.

25:50. Mechanisms of fatigue during 100m sprint. 

31:28. Creatine supplementation and fatigue.

33:22. Fatigue, acidity and physiological temperature. 

35:47. Lactate beneficial?/protective? 

37:26. Lactate threshold.

38:37. Calcium and fatigue.  Sodium-potassium pumps. 

40:50. Energy used for contraction vs maintaining muscle ion levels.

43:46. Mechanisms of fatigue during 400m running race. 

45:30. Muscle fibre types and fatigue. Calcium and fatigue. 

50:13. All out 400m run versus 400m repeats 

50:36. Muscle glycogen, prolonged exercise and fatigue. 

56:50. Sodium potassium pump and fatigue. 

1:00:40. Mental fatigue and nitrate. 

1:06:20. Recovery and training responses. Low frequency fatigue etc. 

1:12:35. Antioxidants/free radicals and adaptation/fatigue. Too many antioxidants can have a negative effect. 

1:21:28. Studies that need to be done.

1:26:40. Lactate acid causes burning feeling? 

1:28:20. AMP-kinase activation during exercise.

1:31:10. Key take home messages.

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