oxygen debt

Hill, a Nobel Prize-winning physiologist coined the term “oxygen debt” to describe what happens when individuals exercise with an inadequate supply of oxygen.

Initially it was thought that this energy, which we call “excess postexercise oxygen consumption,” was a replacement for oxygen debt.

They throw themselves over the boards, skate themselves into oxygen debt, then sit down and watch their sweat freeze.

Based on years of power data analysis, Hayman knew that 500 watts was well above the threshold where his body would go into oxygen debt and his performance would fall off.

The muscular system’s topics now include the role of calcium within myocytes, red and white muscle types and oxygen debt.