Alan:
Here's a suggestion Alan. Read Bengt Saltin's cover story in last
September's Scientific American, "Muscles and Genes." It's a good primer on
how different muscle fibers work. If you want to read more scientific
articles, "Taboo" has a great bibliography with most of the key research on
such things.
On 5/1/01 2:06 PM, "alan tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Physiological studies show that one
>> needs to draw on your aerobic energy reserves after about 45 seconds >or
>> so.
>
> So you need your Anaerobic energy for about 1:00 right? I would think that
> in just about any race you would need to draw on your aerobic reserves at
> some point in time. I would think that those with a high concentration of
> slow-twitch fibers (Kenyans, as you said before) would have a hard time in
> the 800m. So, as I said before even some Kenyans have a high concentration
> of fast-twitch fibers.
>
> Alan
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