STRATEGIES FOR OPTIMIZING STRENGTH, POWER AND MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY IN WOMEN

目前，许多妇女不能满足军事上对重型和重型武器的要求， 非常繁重的起重任务。本提案的总体目标是 旨在发现哪种类型的女性力量训练最 这是军队想要的结果。我们打算 确定上肢力量训练的贡献，以满足这一点 目标.我们的策略是将我们的初步发现转移到 力量训练计划，供野战部队使用。用于比较和 由100名未经培训的男子组成的小组确定项目有效性 将成为“标准”。虽然这项研究需要三年时间， 正式培训将持续六个月，测试将持续三个月 的间隔该培训计划采用了最先进的方案， 阻力训练测试包括神经肌肉强度和力量 测试，肌电图和磁共振成像的肌肉大小。 与军事相关的特殊性能任务将 执行。我们将监测选定的生理变化， 在训练期间和训练之后，在女性的血液中发生。因为 我们知道，许多妇女可能无法忍受高强度的训练（即， “过度训练综合征”），我们建议监测免疫状态， 健康的指标。我们还将测量某些促性腺激素 测试对象的血液中的水平，因为他们是已知的 肌肉大小和神经肌肉功能的关键调节器。我们认为 血液中合成代谢激素的水平会随着 使用六个培训计划中的哪一个：如果是，我们应该能够 将成绩与荷尔蒙浓度联系起来的 这一努力的产物将是“血液标记物的发展， 可训练性”。这样的产品将非常有助于实现 实现和维持能够满足这些要求的妇女的目标， 军事要求。总之，我们的培训计划将 建立：1）在物理性能的最大增益， 可能在未经训练的妇女; 2）如何最大的性能比较 男性平均水平; 3）健康和可训练性的标志 这可以经常用于大规模的实地培训工作， 未来

Currently many women cannot meet military requirements for heavy and very heavy lifting tasks. The overall goal of this proposal is designed to discover which type of women's strength training is most effective for achieving the result the Army wants. We intend to determine the contribution of upper body strength training to meet this goal. Our strategy will be to then transfer our initial findings to a strength training program for field unit use. For comparison and determination of program effectiveness, a group of 100 untrained men will serve as "standards". Although the study will take three years, the formal training will take six months with testing at three month intervals. The training program utilizes the most advanced programs in resistance training. Tests include neuromuscular strength and power tests, electromyography and magnetic resonance imaging for muscle size. Performance tasks which are uniquely relevant to the military will be performed. We will monitor selected physiological changes which are taking place in the blood of women during and after training. Because we know that many women may not tolerate high intensity training (i.e. the 'overtraining syndrome'), we propose to monitor immune status as an indicator of health. We will also measure certain anbolic hormone levels in the blood of the test subjects because they are known to be key regulators of muscle size and neuromuscular function. We believe that the blood levels of anabolic hormones will change depending upon which of the six training programs is used: if so, we should be able to correlate performance achievement with hormone concentration. The product of this effort would be the development of "blood markers of trainability". Such a product would be extremely useful to achieving the goal of attaining and maintaining women who are able to meet these military requirements. In summary, our training programs will establish: 1) the maximal gains in physical performance that are possible in untrained women; 2) how that maximal performance compares to that of the average male; and 3) markers of health and trainability that could be routinely used in large field training efforts in the future.