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1Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, 2School of Kinesiology, and 3Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Submitted 21 October 2004 ; accepted in final form 18 July 2005
Six male subjects [23 yr (SD 4)] performed repetitions (68) of two-legged, moderate-intensity, knee-extension exercise during two separate protocols that included step transitions from 3 W to 90% estimated lactate threshold (
L) performed as a single step (S3) and in two equal steps (S1, 3 W to
45%
L; S2,
45%
L to
90%
L). The time constants (
) of pulmonary oxygen uptake (
O2), leg blood flow (LBF), heart rate (HR), and muscle deoxygenation (HHb) were greater (P < 0.05) in S2 (
O2,
52 s;
LBF,
39 s;
HR,
42 s;
HHb,
33 s) compared with S1 (
O2,
24 s;
LBF,
21 s;
HR,
21 s;
HHb,
16 s), while the delay before an increase in HHb was reduced (P < 0.05) in S2 (
14 s) compared with S1 (
20 s). The
O2 and HHb amplitudes were greater (P < 0.05) in S2 compared with S1, whereas the LBF amplitude was similar in S2 and S1. Thus the slowed
O2 response in S2 compared with S1 is consistent with a mechanism whereby
O2 kinetics is limited, in part, by a slowed adaptation of blood flow and/or O2 transport when exercise was initiated from a baseline of moderate-intensity exercise.
oxygen uptake kinetics; femoral arterial blood flow kinetics; Doppler ultrasound; knee-extension exercise; near-infrared spectroscopy
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