Imagine an individual who has been training for a half marathon….

Question Answered step-by-step Imagine an individual who has been training for a half marathon…. Imagine an individual who has been training for a half marathon.  They have performed 5 sessions each week of at an intensity of 50-60% of maximal aerobic capacity for 45-60 minutes. The individual has been following this for about 4 months and has seen some improvements in performance and increased maximal aerobic capacity.1. At this point in the individual’s training, what physiologic components of our Fick Equation are primarily responsible for this improvement in maximal aerobic capacity. List:  what has changed within the Fick equation andwhat has caused these changes? 2.  Following training sessions, what are the Primary and Secondary signals within the individual’s skeletal muscles induced by aerobic exercise, and what changes do each of these lead to? The same athlete as above competes in their half marathon and does fairly well.  However, they want to continue to improve, and so they increase their exercise intensity to account for their improved VO2max, and continues to train for the next 2.5 years (increasing intensity as necessary to achieve overload).  Their Maximal aerobic capacity continues to improve.1. What physiologic components of our Fick Equation are primarily responsible for this improvement in maximal aerobic capacity (over this second, longer period of time), and what caused these changes?2. Now that the individual has been exercising consistently for quite some time, what aspects of their health may have been improved relative to another (sedentary) individual (think about Chp. 14: CVD, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome and the way exercise affects some of their risk factors) Biology Science Physiology EXS 323 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)