Carolina Fitness Magazine - The Christmas Abbott Issue Fall 2015 | Page 6

Some training techniques that can
selectively fine tune the anaerobic
mechanism include resistance and sprint
training but also include combination
training. This training method helps
improve the speed-power related
performances. Combination training can
decrease gains in muscle girth
and decrease maximal strength.
This could be due to the muscle cell
recruitment and that the body is training
the body to maintain only the muscle
girth that events require.

The events an athlete
participates in determines
their oxygen uptake and
how the body switches gears
depending on the volume and
intensity of the activity. The
anaerobic mechanism can
contribute to the power output
within the first sixty seconds of
activity, after that initial sixty
seconds the aerobic mechanism
is responsible for more of the
energy output.
The anaerobic mechanism provides much of the
energy for the work done above the maximal
oxygen uptake levels that an individual can
attain. With the intensity of the anaerobic
mechanism being so high, the exercise
duration tends to decrease. Athletes that utilize
this type of system the most would be short
distance swimmers, sprinters, discus or shot put
throwers, or power lifting sports.

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There are specific adaptations that
happen within the body in accordance
with anaerobic training. Many of these
adaptations begin with the neural
adaptations within the brain and quick
responses from neurological connections
within muscles. Anaerobic mechanisms are
related to quicker and short bursts of energy
expenditure. With the needs of the body to
react faster, response systems have to adapt
to perform to those needs.
These neurological improvements
contribute to the muscle fiber recruitment
during resistance training sessions. Larger
muscles benefit the most from anaerobic
training and sustain the greatest number of
muscle fibers recruited.