One Week of No Training - Impact on Mitochondria
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ATT949
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Seeing that I'm working hard to recover from a series of forced interruptions in training, I found this document of interest:
http://tinyurl.com/m4uc5p4
I was seeking inforamtion about how a layoff impacts cardiovascular health and the text from one of the slides stood out:
"Detraining: Time Course of Changes in Mitochondrial Number
About 50% of the increase in mitochondrial content was lost after one week of detraining
All of the adaptations were lost after five weeks of detraining
It took four weeks of retraining to regain the adaptations lost in the first week of detraining"
It's clear that mitochondria are just one of the many adaptations that take place when we train but I thought this one data point might be of interest.
http://tinyurl.com/m4uc5p4
I was seeking inforamtion about how a layoff impacts cardiovascular health and the text from one of the slides stood out:
"Detraining: Time Course of Changes in Mitochondrial Number
About 50% of the increase in mitochondrial content was lost after one week of detraining
All of the adaptations were lost after five weeks of detraining
It took four weeks of retraining to regain the adaptations lost in the first week of detraining"
It's clear that mitochondria are just one of the many adaptations that take place when we train but I thought this one data point might be of interest.
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As a scientist training for her first marathon I found this very interesting!0
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Wonderful. I haven't been able to run in 5 weeks. Looks like I may be starting from scratch again.
when the hip heals that is.0
