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What are the 3 broad reasons that we require energy for?

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Resting metabolic rate, thermic effect of food, ATP (adenosine triphosphate)

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What is ATP made up of?

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An adenosine molecule and 3 phosphates

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How does ATP release energy?

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When the chemical bonds between the phosphate break

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What is the primary source of energy in the body?

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ATP

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What enzyme causes the phosphate bonds to break?

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ATPase

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ATPase uses what?

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Water

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The process of ATPase breaking the bonds is called?

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Hydrolysis

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A word ending in ‘lysis’ means?

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That something has been chemically broken

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What are macronutrients?

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Carbohydrates, fats, proteins

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Macronutrients are broken down during … and absorbed into the …

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Digestion, bloodstream

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Carbohydrate is broken down and used as … or stored as … in the liver or muscles

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Glucose, glycogen

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Fat is converted into?

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Fatty free acids

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FFA are used for energy or stored as …. in adipose tissue, or within muscle

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Triglycerides

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Protein is broken down into?

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Amino acids

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Where are amino acids stored?

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In muscles and other tissue

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ATP is produced via?

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3 metabolic pathways

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What are the three metabolic pathways?

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Phosphocreatine system, glycolytic system, oxidative system

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What is anaerobic metabolism?

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It produced ATP without the use of oxygen

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Which two pathways are anaerobic?

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PCr and glycolytic

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Anaerobic metabolism takes care of what type of energy requirements?

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Immediate and very short term energy requirements

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The anaerobic systems occur in what area of the muscle?

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Sarcoplasm

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PCr system deals with?

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Immediate ATP requirements and also during very high intensity efforts

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How many times more PCr than ATP is there stored in the body?

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4x

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PCr use is restricted to the first how many seconds of movement?

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6-10seconds

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During very high intensity, PCr is the ... of ATP
Primary provider
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How many ATP molecules does PCr produce per chemical reaction?
1
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How does the glycolytic system produce ATP?
Through the process of glycolysis
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What is glycolysis?
The breakdown of glucose or glycogen to produce ATP
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Is the glycolytic system slower or faster than PCr?
Slower
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Which produces more ATP, PCr or glycolytic?
Glycolytic
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What time period of movement does glycolytic system provide ATP for?
The first few minutes. And is also the main provider of ATP during high intensity efforts lasting up to 2 minutes
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How many ATP molecules does the glycolytic system produce?
2 or 3. Depending whether glucose or glycogen is used
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Glycolysis involves a series of chemical reactions the produce?
A small number of ATP molecules, pyruvate and H+
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When O2 supply is ... or demands for ATP are high, ... is converted into lactic acid
Insufficient, pyruvate
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Why is glycolysis short lived?
Because the metabolic by products of glycolysis build up and slow or inhibit further ATP production
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Lactic acid quickly breaks down into?
Lactate and hydrogen ions
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If oxygen is present, or ATP demand drops, lactate can be converted back to?
Pyruvate
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Alternatively lactate can be moved out of the muscle into the blood stream. From here it can be used in the liver or taken up and used by?
Type I muscle fibres
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The aerobic system is also known as the what system?
Oxidative
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The aerobic/oxidative system is the slowest or fastest system?
Slowest
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Does the aerobic/oxidative system produce more ATP that PCr?
Yes
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Aerobic metabolism provides the .... of energy during activities lasting longer than ... minutes
Majority. 4 minutes
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The two step process of aerobic metabolism occurs when oxygen supply is ... or energy demands are ...
Adequate. Low
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The two step process occurs where?
In the mitochondria
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The first process can use either .... (from glycolysis) or the end product of beta-oxidation to produce ....
Pyruvate. Acetyl-CoA
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Acetyl-CoA undergoes a number of chemical reactions which is collectively called the?
Krebs cycle
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The Krebs cycle produces how many ATP?
2
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The second process is called?
The electron transfer chain
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The electron transfer chain uses the ... from the Krebs cycle and ... and O2 from the air we breath to produce ATP and H2O
H+ and glycolysis
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Depending on whether glucose or FFA is used how many ATP molecules are produced?
Either 36 or 129
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The fate of pyruvate depends on?
The demand for energy
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If demand for energy is low what can pyruvate be used for?
ATP production in the mitochondria
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If energy demand is high, pyruvate is converted into?
Lactate
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PCr produces how many ATP molecules?
1
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Anaerobic metabolism produces how many ATP molecules?
2 or 3
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Oxidation of carbohydrate produces how many ATP molecules?
36
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Oxidation of fat produces how many ATP molecules?
129
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Which system has the fastest rate of ATP production?
PCr
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Which system has the slowest rate of ATP production?
Oxidation of fat
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During muscle contraction in the first 10 seconds of movement, what provides most of the ATP?
Stored ATP and PCr
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As PCR levels decrease, what then provides ATP?
Anaerobic glycolysis
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After anaerobic glycolysis decreases, what is the next system?
Aerobic/oxidative
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The neuromuscular system is made up of?
Central nervous system and skeletal muscle
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A motor unit is?
Motor neurons (nerves) and the muscle fibres the neurons innervate
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For a motor unit to be activated it must?
Receive a signal from the brain
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The all or none theory is?
When a signal is sent to a motor unit, all of the fibres in that motor unit are activated
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The type of motor unit, rate of recruitment and number of motor units recruited determines?
How much force is produced
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The main proteins that make up skeletal muscle are?
Actin and myosin
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Actin and myosin are found in a contractile unit called the?
Sarcomere
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What is the process called when actin and myosin interact to cause muscle contraction?
Sliding filament theory
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What dictates muscle recruitment?
The size principle
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The size principle refers to?
The size of the motor unit affecting the recruitment of various fibre types
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To produce a required force, motor units are recruited (activated) from ....
Smallest to largest
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What happens if more force is needed?
Additional small motor units and slightly bigger motor units are recruited
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When are almost all motor units recruited?
When maximal force is required
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What size units are recruited first?
Small
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What fibres are found in small motor units?
Type I fibres
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Type I fibres are also referred to as?
Slow twitch fibres
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Type I fibres have a very good ..., a high volume of ... and ..., and rely on O2 to produce ...
Blood supply. Mitochondria and myoglobin. ATP
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Type I fibres are ... resistant
Fatigue
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Their small size and slow contraction rate means that these fibres produce ... force and power
Low
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The next type of fibres are?
IIa
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IIa fibres can produce high ... and ..., and have a ... level of fatigue resistance
Force. Power. Moderate
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They can produce ATP with or without ....
O2
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The largest motor units are made up of what fibres?
Type IIx
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These fibres are recruited ...
Last
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Iix fibres are used for ...., .... movements and movements that require a lot of ....
Fast, powerful. Force
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These functional characteristics are due to?
Very fast nerve signals, fast contraction and relaxation rates, and the large diameter of fibres
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If a fibre has more actin and myosin that means it is a .... .... fibre?
Large diameter
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Because type Iix fibres are required to contract rapidly they rely on ...., ... and .... for ATP supply
Stored ATP, PCr and anaerobic glycolysis
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Which types of fibres fatigue the most quickly?
Type IIx
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What two fibres are referred to as fast twitch fibres?
Type IIa and type IIx

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