Exercise Physiology: Theory and Application to Fitness and Performance 9th Edition by Scott Powers, Edward Howley

Exercise 11

Outline the “big picture” changes that occur in skeletal muscle as a result of exercise training and discuss the specificity of exercise-training responses.

Step 1 of 2

Irrespective of the type of training exercise, adaptations are induced in muscle fibers following an exercise. The stress induced by exercise causes activation of specific transcriptional factors that ultimately lead to gene expression of these proteins. The types of proteins that are expressed determine the muscle characteristics.