MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MUSCLE OF RATS SUBMITTED TO A PROTOCOL OF CONCURRENT TRAINING
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Aerobic training, anaerobic training, swimming, water jumps.Abstract
The aim of this study was to analyze the morphophysiological changes of medial gastrocnemius muscle (Gm) of Wistar rats underwent to eight weeks of concurrent training (TC). We used fifteen male Wistar rats divided into three groups with five animals each: baseline (LB), control (C) and trained (T). The TC consisted of aerobic endurance training in swimming (TRA) and a forced training (TF) in the same session, three times per week, for eight weeks. There was an increase of 4.4% in the comparison between average cross section area of the Gm in animals of groups T (4905,5 ± 77,1µm2) and C (4699,9 ± 78,3 µm2). It is concluded that concurrent training was effective in causing hypertrophy in Gm of rats.Downloads
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2013-05-08
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