Nikolaidis, Michalis.

The Effect of Muscle-Damaging Exercise on Blood and Skeletal Muscle

Oxidative Stress: Magnitude and Time-Course Considerations. Sports Medicine,
Auckland 38.7, 2008, 579-606

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Quotation Notes

Bench-press exercises are among the most Bench press is so common yet one of the most
common form of training exercise for the upper dangerous movements if done incorrectly
extremity because they yield a notable
improvement in both muscle strength and muscle
endurance.

The effect of aerobic and anaerobic exercise on The reason this s included is because to get that
oxidative stress of several tissues has been studied lean shredded look bodybuilders are known for
and reviewed extensively.[7,9] It is now well this type of cardio is required.
established that strenuous exercise can accelerate
the generation of ROS and NO that frequently
exceeds the capacity of antioxidant defence and
results in oxidative stress.

At the same power output, the oxygen cost is Most bodybuilders only care about their muscle
lower for eccentric than for concentric exercise,[19] looks not their muscle health.
but even so, eccentric exercise can cause much
greater muscle damage than concentric exercise.

eccentric exercise can cause effects other than Insulin resistance can lead to diabetes and also it
just muscle damage, from activation of several can lead to a distended gut.
transcription factors,[25] to decreased glycogen
replenishment[26] and insulin resistance

non-muscle-damaging exercise is not able to This leads to overtraining due to a lack of

induce changes in oxidative stress for more than a soreness at the moment of working out.
few hours post-exercise.
muscle-damaging exercise can increase oxidative There is more than just damage to the muscle
stress/damage in blood and skeletal muscle of rats when over trained.
and humans