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The effects on heart rate, oxygen uptake, and pulmonary ventilation of muscular exercises, including both dynamic contractions, either simple or combined, were studied in 4 male subjects, aged 21 to 23 years. The dynamic work consisted in cycling on an ergometric bicycle at three power levels: 40, 80, and 100 W. The static work consisted in pushing against, pulling and holding with the arms a 6, 9, 12, or 18 kg load. The physiological effects are expressed as cardiac cost (δHR), oxygen cost (δVO2) and ventilation cost (δV). The physiological cost of the combined work increases according to the cycling power and to the isometric load developed. A statistical analysis shows that the costs of combined work are not different from the sum of the costs of the static and dynamic contractions measured separately. Thus, the physiological responses to the combinations investigated are of an additive type.
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Sanchez, J., Monod, H. Physiological effects of dynamic work on a bicycle ergometer combined with different types of static contraction. Europ. J. Appl. Physiol. 41, 259–266 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00429742
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