Psychological Stress Impairs Short-Term Muscular Recovery From Resistance Exercise
PURPOSE:
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether chronic mental stress moderates recovery of muscular function, perceived energy, fatigue and soreness in the first hour following a bout of strenuous resistance exercise.
METHODS:
31 undergraduate resistance training students (age = 20.26 ± 1.34 y) completed the perceived stress scale (PSS) and Undergraduate Stress Questionnaire (USQ; a measure of life event stress) and completed fitness testing. Following 5 to 14 days of recovery, they performed an acute heavy-resistance exercise protocol (10-RM leg press test plus six sets: 80-100% of 10-RM). Maximal isometric force (MIF) was assessed prior to, following, and at 20, 40, and 60 min post-exercise. Participants also reported their levels of perceived energy, fatigue, and soreness. Recovery data was analyzed with hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) growth curve analysis.
RESULTS:
Life event stress significantly moderated linear (p = .013) and squared (p = .05) recovery of MIF. This relationship held even when the model was adjusted for fitness, workload, and training experience. Likewise, perceived stress moderated linear recovery of MIF (p = .023). Neither USQ nor PSS significantly moderated changes in energy, fatigue, or soreness.
CONCLUSION:
Life event stress and perceived stress both moderated the recovery of muscular function, but not psychological responses, in the first hour post strenuous resistance exercise.
I think this may well have relevance to the work of Marcora that I've poined to before. so much of this stuff is mental. Perceptions are so important. When you feel stressed everything will feel harder and of course your performance will be impacted
6 comments:
Thanks Chris for the link!
Kinda makes sense to me that chronic levels of stress will impact the ability of the body to respond to extra stress!
You can't be in protection mode and growth mode at the same time....
Keep up the good work,
George
WoW! Nice facts and info..thanks! :)
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This is very true. Personally, this becomes evident for me after being woken up by blaring alarms at all hours of the night to run medical calls. The next day I always feel like someone beat my head with a baseball bat. The idea of lifting heavy or doing any sort of intensive interval work is the furthest thing from my mind as I know adding more stress (even though it's positive stress) is only going to hamper not only my muscular recovery but, CNS, psychological, etc.
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