Author:
Amann Markus,Proctor Lester T.,Sebranek Joshua J.,Eldridge Marlowe W.,Pegelow David F.,Dempsey Jerome A.
Abstract
We investigated whether somatosensory feedback from contracting limb muscles exerts an inhibitory influence on the determination of central command during closed-loop cycling exercise in which the subject voluntarily determines his second-by-second central motor drive. Eight trained cyclists performed two 5-km time trials either without (5KCtrl) or with lumbar epidural anesthesia (5KEpi; 24 ml of 0.5% lidocaine, vertebral interspace L3–L4). Percent voluntary quadriceps muscle activation was determined at rest using a superimposed twitch technique. Epidural lidocaine reduced pretime trial maximal voluntary quadriceps strength (553 ± 45 N) by 22 ± 3%. Percent voluntary quadriceps activation was also reduced from 97 ± 1% to 81 ± 3% via epidural lidocaine, and this was unchanged following the 5KEpi, indicating the presence of a sustained level of neural impairment throughout the trial. Power output was reduced by 9 ± 2% throughout the race ( P < 0.05). We found three types of significant effects of epidural lidocaine that supported a substantial role for somatosensory feedback from the exercising limbs as a determinant of central command throughout high-intensity closed-loop cycling exercise: 1) significantly increased relative integrated EMG of the vastus lateralis; 2) similar pedal forces despite the reduced number of fast-twitch muscle fibers available for activation; 3) and increased ventilation out of proportion to a reduced carbon dioxide production and heart rate and increased blood pressure out of proportion to power output and oxygen consumption. These findings demonstrate the inhibitory influence of somatosensory feedback from contracting locomotor muscles on the conscious and/or subconscious determination of the magnitude of central motor drive during high intensity closed-loop endurance exercise.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
Cited by
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