Stretch-shortening cycle exercise produces acute and prolonged impairments on endurance performance: is the peripheral fatigue a single answer?
Marcos David Silva-CavalcantePatrícia Guimaraes CoutoRafael de Almeida AzevedoArthur Fernandes GáspariDaniel Boari CoelhoAdriano Eduardo Lima-SilvaRomulo BertuzziPublished in: European journal of applied physiology (2019)
These findings demonstrate that impairment in endurance performance induced by prior SSC protocol was mediated by two distinct mechanisms, where the acute impairment was related to an exacerbated degree of peripheral and central fatigue, and the prolonged impairment was due to elevated perceived muscle soreness.