Table 3 Muscle fiber type distribution (No), fiber diameter (Fdm) and nuclei-to-fiber ratio (N/F) before and after three months of follicular phase-based or luteal phase-based strength training (N = 9)
From: Effects of follicular versus luteal phase-based strength training in young women
Pre-training | Post-training | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FT | LT | FT | LT | |||||
Type Ι | Type ΙΙ | Type Ι | Type ΙΙ | Type Ι | Type ΙΙ | Type Ι | Type ΙΙ | |
No (%) | 40.9 ± 9.1 | 59.1 ± 9.1 | 41.8 ± 13.6 | 58.2 ± 13.6 | 40.3 ± 11.1 | 59.7 ± 11.1 | 40.5 ± 13.0 | 59.5 ± 13.0 |
Fdm (μm) | 54.5 ± 5.1 | 45.8 ± 5.8 | 54.0 ± 7.4 | 46.8 ± 7.9 | 56.7 ± 7.1 | 52.5 ± 7.0* | 57.0 ± 3.4 | 51.9 ± 7.3# |
N/F | 2.9 ± 0.4 | 3.4 ± 0.8 | 3.8 ± 1.1* | 3.4 ± 0.7 | ||||