Postactivation Potentiation: Role in Human Performance Journal Articles

abstract

• Postactivation potentiation (PAP) is the transient increase in muscle contractile performance after previous contractile activity. This review describes the features and mechanism of PAP, assesses its potential role in endurance and strength/speed performance, considers strategies for exploiting PAP, and outlines how PAP might be affected by training.

authors

• Sale, Digby Graham

status

• published 

publication date

• July 2002

has subject area

• 0913 Mechanical Engineering (FoR)
• 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences (FoR)
• 1116 Medical Physiology (FoR)
• Exercise (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Muscle Contraction (MeSH)
• Muscle Fibers, Skeletal (MeSH)
• Muscle, Skeletal (MeSH)
• Physical Endurance (MeSH)
• Sport Sciences (Science Metrix)
• United States (MeSH)

published in

• Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews  Journal

keywords

• Exercise
• Humans
• Muscle Contraction
• Muscle Fibers, Skeletal
• Muscle, Skeletal
• Physical Endurance
• United States

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1097/00003677-200207000-00008

PubMed ID

• 12150573

start page

• 138

end page

• 143

volume

• 30

issue

• 3