Effect of elastic-band exercise on muscle damage and inflammatory responses in Taekwondo athletes

Abstract

Introduction: Elastic bands offer variable elastic resistance (ER) throughout a range of motion and their incorporation with exercise movements has been used for variable strength training and rehabilitation purposes. Objective: Investigate the effect of acute bout of progressive elastic-band exercise on muscle damage and inflammatory response in Taekwondo athletes (TKD) compared with untrained ones. Methods: Fourteen (TKD, n = 7 and untrained, n = 7) men performed 3 sets of progressive resistance elastic exercise. Blood samples were taken pre-exercise and also immediately and 24h post exercise. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), creatine kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity, total leukocyte counts, interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein (CRP) were analyzed. Results: Only DOMS increased in untrained group, but elevation of DOMS was observed in both groups (TKD and untrained) at 24h after exercise (p<0.05). CK and LDH activity increased in both groups significantly. Also TKD group only showed CK increasing 24h post exercise (p<0.05). Total circulating leukocyte counts increased immediately in post exercise experiments and decreased in 24h ones in both groups (p<0.05). Serum IL-6 immediately increased in both groups and 24h post exercises but there was no significant difference between immediate and 24h post exercise experiments in TKD group. Furthermore, CRP just increased 24h after exercise in both groups (p<0.05). Conclusion: Progressive resistance elastic exercise induced muscle damage and inflammation in TKD athletes, but also had smaller changes in comparison with untrained group and other forms of exercise.

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“…All participants had no experience in resistance exercises of the wrist flexor muscles. Gadruni et al [23] found that muscle soreness and inflammatory markers indicative of muscle damage significantly increased 24h after the elastic-band exercise protocol in sedentary individuals. To our knowledge, the classic massage with peppermint oil and vaseline may have attenuated muscle soreness in the present study because massage supports blood and lymph circulation, and eliminates lactate accumulation by inflammation or fatigue following exercise [24].…”

Effects of different methods of strength training on indicators of muscle fatigue during and after strength training: a systematic review

“…Variable resistance (RV) corresponds to the change of intensity during the application of force training load, within the various variable resistances are intra-variable resistance, intra-repetition variable resistance, and intra-series variable resistance 44 . Some types of VR have reported increases in the indicators of muscle fatigue and inflammation in both athletes and sedentary people, evidencing increases in the DOMS and [La] 24 . On the other hand, VR protocols cause general and local fatigue in military athletes that is related to the increase in [La] (p < 0.001) and decreases in average power (p < 0.002) 1 .…”

“…However, Miranda et al 55 , in the context of neural activation, stated that a 3-minute rest interval between series may represent a neuromuscular window between a state of fatigue and a state of the total recovery in trained women. These same researchers examined the effect of the different recovery periods (24,48, and 72 hours) between sessions of strength training using press banking in trained subjects. At the end, they concluded that a recovery period of only 24 hours induces an increase in [La] and RPE (p < 0.05) 56 , variables that are considered as indicators of muscular fatigue 35 and that are directly related to the decrease in performance 48 .…”

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Comparing the effects of resistance exercise type on serum levels of oxidative stress and muscle damage markers in resistance-trained women

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