Bigland-Ritchie & Wood : a linear relationship between EMG activity & oxygen cost
- It is possible that increase of recruitment of motor units after EIMD may elevate VO2 during cycling .
Other study : increase in VO2 during submaximal cycling after muscle-damaging exercise postulated that may due to an increase in ventilation.
It is possible that lungs evoked an added metabolic cost in order to facilitate the augmented VE response