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    Acetaminophen ingestion improves muscle activation and performance during a 3-min all-out cycling test

    Morgan, P ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7254-4507, Vanhatalo, A, Bowtell, JL, Jones, AM and Bailey, SJ (2018) Acetaminophen ingestion improves muscle activation and performance during a 3-min all-out cycling test. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 44 (4). pp. 434-442. ISSN 1715-5312

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    Abstract

    Acute acetaminophen (ACT) ingestion has been shown to enhance cycling time-trial performance. The purpose of this study was to assess whether ACT ingestion enhances muscle activation and critical power (CP) during maximal cycling exercise. Sixteen active male participants completed two 3-min all-out tests against a fixed resistance on an electronically braked cycle ergometer 60 min after ingestion of 1gofACTorplacebo (maltodextrin, PL). CP was estimated as the mean power output over the final 30 s of the test and W= (the curvature constant of the power–duration relationship) was estimated as the work done above CP. The femoral nerve was stimulated every 30 s to measure membrane excitability (M-wave) and surface electromyography (EMG RMS ) was recorded continuously to infer muscle activation. Compared with PL, ACT ingestion increased CP (ACT: 297 ± 32 W vs. PL: 288 ± 31 W, P < 0.001) and total work done (ACT: 66.4 ± 6.5 kJ vs. PL: 65.4 ± 6.4 kJ, P = 0.03) without impacting W= (ACT: 13.1 ± 2.9 kJ vs. PL: 13.6 ± 2.4 kJ, P = 0.19) or the M-wave amplitude (P = 0.66) during the 3-min all-out cycling test. Normalised EMG RMS amplitude declined throughout the 3-min protocol in both PL and ACT conditions; however, the decline in EMG RMS amplitude was attenuated in the ACT condition, such that the EMG RMS amplitude was greater in ACT compared with PL over the last 60 s of the test (P = 0.04). These findings indicate that acute ACT ingestion might increase performance and CP during maximal cycling exercise by enhancing muscle activation.

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