Snippit Sports Science Podcast

Snippit is made possible by listeners like you. Please help support the podcast: ► https://www.patreon.com/snippitscience    This Snippit focuses on the effects of post-activation potentiation (PAP) in male and female performance. We feel it is important to recognise that there may be differences in the response between both sexes. A little background… During explosive warm-up, the possibility of muscle fatigue can negatively affect contractile history and impairs force production or power output, thus decreasing explosive performance within a certain time. Therefore, some investigators have reported jump performance decreases after pre-load high-intensity warm-up, which has been attributed to possible muscle fatigue. Nevertheless, research investigators have reported a coexistence of fatigue and PAP in skeletal muscle and that muscle performance enhancement after pre-load warm-up depends on the balance between muscle fatigue and muscle potentiation. Optimal performance occurs when fatigue has subsided but P