Muscle Size And Muscle Fatigue Experiment

According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), depending on the task males or females were more or less resistant for the muscle group being used. Valley Center High School physiology students conducted experiments on muscle size and strength and muscle fatigue. With this in mind, the data the students collected from these labs and other sources shows how muscle size and sex have an impact on an individual’s muscle fatigue resistance. First, the muscle size of an individual determines how long they can withstand certain types of physical activity. For example, an article from the source from above called “Sex Differences in Fatigue Resistance Are Muscle Group Dependent” by Keith G. Avin states that the sixteen females that participated in their experiment (on if females are more fatigue resistant than males) were more resistant at the elbow than males but not at the ankles “Females (112.3 ± 6.2 sec) were significantly
VCHS physiology students conducted experiments which included measuring the biceps, forearms and triceps and comparing the sizes between males and females. They then used a clothespin in order to measure the fatigue resistance of an individual by calculating the number of clothespin clicks in two and a half minutes. According to the data charts, many of the male students had larger muscle sizes than the females students which leads to the males being able to perform more average clothespin clicks per second than the females. However, there were a few female students that had a little bit bigger bicep, forearm, or tricep size than a few of the male students but still had fewer clothespin clicks. Therefore, muscle fatigue greatly depends on the individual’s resistance to fatigue in the muscle group being used and also the muscle size and sex of the