Muscular System Adaptations

• What are the muscular system adaptations?

  -Hypertrophy

  -Increase Tendon Strength

  -Muscle tone

  -Muscle endurance

  -Hyperplasia

  -Increased Mitochondria

  -Increased Myoglobin

  -Increase storage of glycogen and triglycerides

  -Adaptation of muscle fibres

  -Capillarisation
• What is hypertrophy?

  An increase in muscle size from training with greater resistance
• What is an increased tendon strength?

  As skeletal muscle becomes larger, stronger or more efficient, connective tendons adapt to meet increased demands to avoid injury from increased force contraction
• What is muscle tone?

  The state of constant muscle activation helps maintain balance and posturem and allows for quick reflex reactions
• What is muscle endurance?

  Endurance training helps improve muscular endurance by increasing the number of capillaries per area of muscle tissue, increasing oxygen supply
• What is hyperplasia?

  The action of splitting muscle cells contributing to muscle growth
• What is increased mitochondria?

  When muscles increase oxidative capacity with training through an increase in the number of mitochondria in the muscle cells, an increased ATP supply and an increase in the quantity of the enzymes involved in respiration
• What is increased myoglobin?

  With training, muscles increase their ability to store glycogen and myoglobin
• What is an increased storage of glycogen and triglycerides?

  With training, muscles increase the ability to store and use triglycerides and glycogen
• What is the adaptation of muscle fibers?

  Exercise leads to an increase in number and size of mitochondria within muscle fibers. Strength training increases the number contractile proteins
• What is capillarisation?

  Exercise enables muscle tissue to increase capillary density which will supply more oxygen to the muscles