Friends of Ace

I wrote to Guy over at Exercise etc. about this but haven't heard back (when I do I'll give his reply). I did some research and posted that below.

Here's the question:

Which of the following is not an expected outcome of strength training?

A. Less inhibition

B. Increase in mitochondria (which is the one I thought was correct)

C. Increase in cross sectional area of the muscle

D. increase in muscular endurance (which is listed as correct).

Now I do understand that (according to the specificity chart) muscular endurance is typically from doing less than 70 percent of 1RM 12-20 reps, so muscular endurance wouldn't be an outcome for higher percentage of 1 RM w/ lower rep ranges (though the question doesn't specify the percentage of 1RM or rep range).

According to Douglas Brooks "Program Design For Personal Trainers" pgs 134-135 it says

"The increase in actin and myosin and energy generating compounds (anaerobic enzymes stored ATP, CP and Glycogen) with "heavy" (8-12 repetitions to muscular fatigue) resistance training occurs without parallel increases in capillarization or in total volume of mitochondria or mitochondrial enzymes within muscle cells."

So I'm puzzled as to why D would be more correct than B.


Take care and best,

Scott












-- Edited by Scott60 at 12:06, 2008-07-08