Isometric strength and endurance during the menstrual cycle

1439-6327

Isometric strength and endurance ; Menstrual cycle ; Birth control pill ; Heart rate ; Blood pressure ; Muscular temperature

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Medicine

Abstract Seven healthy young women, 3 of whom had been taking oral contraceptives, were examined during the course of 2 menstrual cycles to assess their isometric strength, their endurance during a series of 5 fatiguing isometric contractions at a tension of 40% MVC, and their blood pressures and heart rates during those fatiguing contractions. Two sets of experiments were performed, one in which the subject's forearm temperature was allowed to vary as a function of T A , and one with the muscle temperature stabilized by immersion of the forearm in water at 37

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