Thursday, April 3, 2008

Period 7 Blog #7 Weight Training Metabolic Pathways

There are three biochemical means in which energy is provided for all human action. They are phosphagen, glycolytic, and oxidative. In other words your body gets energy in three ways depending on the demands of the activity you are participating in. We call these energy sources metabolic pathways. Wether you realize it or not we have been training in all three.

The phosphagen pathway provides the bulk of energy used in high powered activities, those that last less than ten seconds.

The glycotic pathway provides energy for activities that last up to several minutes.

The oxidative pathway provides energy for low-powered activities, those that last in excess of several minutes.

There are a lot of complex process that go into energy production and we will skim across that in future blogs but, for this blog I want you to give me an example of an activity for each of the metabolic pathways listed above.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Harrison Halem- The phosphagen pathway would be demonstrated well in a play of football lasting less then 10 seconds.

The glycotic pathway would be demonstrated in a game of basketball with timeouts or out of bounds every several minutes.

The oxidative pathway would be demonstrated in soccer when players dont come off the field for over 45 minutes at some points.

Anonymous said...

Phosphagen pathways are used in High powered activities such as power cleans.

Glycotic Pathways are used in activities such as Sidney's and other metcon drills.

Oxidative Pathways are used in activities such as running

- Zach Latter

Anonymous said...

A phosphagen pathway exercise would be a max out on a bench press. A glycotic pathway exercise would be pushups. An oxidative pathway exercies would be a long jog.

-Zachary Canter

Stephane Ngoumou said...

The phosphagen pathway would be used in in sports lasting only a few minutes

The glycotic pathway would be demonstated in sports that has constant stops every several minutes

The oxidative pathway would be used in sport like rugby where there is no stops for about 45 minutes

Anonymous said...

phospagen pathway could be used in lifting a table onto a truck in one quick motion
the glycotic energy could be used in short sprtins like the 400 or 800
the oxidative pathway would be used for a soccer player

alex dunlop

Anonymous said...

Phosphgen pathway can be used in football and some track events which last only a few seconds, or even a max deadlift or squat.

Glycotic pathway can be performed in basketball, lacrosse or volleyball were timeouts or fouls occur every few minutes.

Oxidative pathway would be performed in soccer, cross country were playing time is constant.

-John Schmidt

Anonymous said...

The Phospagen pathway would be running the 100meter dash.

The Glycotic pathway could be demonstrated by a period in a wrestling match.

The oxidative pathway could be demonstrated by cross country running.

Brett Barkley

Anonymous said...

The phosphagen pathway would be demonstrated well during a 40 yard dash

The glycotic pathway would be demonstrated well during an ice hockey game. You have one minute shifts and you go all out.

The oxidative pathway would be demonstrated well during a cross country run.

-Steven Rubin

Anonymous said...

phos pathways are used when doing deadlifts at high weight

glyc pathways are used when playing football, with periodic breaks

oxidative pathways are used when doing long distance runs

-Mark Stubenberg

Anonymous said...

I use the phosphagen pathway as I go for my one-rep max in any of the primary lifts (deadlift, shoulder press, bench, squat)

I use my glycotic pathway as I jump rope single-hop for maybe two or three minutes.

I use the oxidative pathway as I go on a 2-mile run at track practice.

-Weava Weave-

Anonymous said...

phosphagen pathway- this is used in the 40 yard dash

glycotic pathway- this is used in a lacrosse game where you have to run and be active all the time while you are in with no rests or breaks

oxidative pathway- this is used in jogging for a long period of a time without overworking your body

gordie gold period 7

Anonymous said...

phosphagen pathway- 40 yard dash

glycotic pathway-mile run

The oxidative pathway - staying in and playing in a high pace sport

Anonymous said...

A phosphagen activity would be lifting a heavy load only once, like trying to get a max out lift.

A glycotic activity would be a sport like football or sprinting, in which there are short plays that last a few minutes.

An oxidative activity would be a workout such as the filthy fifties.

Marcel Copay

Anonymous said...

I would say that the phosphagen pathway involves something like an activiy that lasts for less than 10 seconds.

The glycotic pathways are used for activities such as metcon that last for several minutes and involve intense concentration.

The oxidative pathways are used for activities such as a long distace jog since it doesnt reqire alot of energy to jog. ~Riell Swann~

Anonymous said...

phasogen pathways are used in high powered activities such as short sprints where you go all out for a short amount of time.

Glycotic pathways are used in activites such as cidneys

Oxidative pathways are used ina ctivities such as running long distances