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Symbol for foot, a measure of distance.



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Furthermore, studies have shown that glycogen is depleted faster from fast-twitch fibers, especially during interval type work .
The fast-twitch fibers contract more forcefully than the slow-twitch but have no blood supply and can only fire for a relatively short period of time before fatiguing from physiologic acidic (lactic) build-up and adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP) depletion.
This is the opposite of what would be predicted, because the use of electrical stimulation should attenuate or reverse the typical shift toward fast-twitch fibers following SCI injury (32-34) and lower F50s.
 
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