The Athletes and Their Sports: Red Vs White Muscle Fibres Analysis

The Athletes and Their Sports: Red Vs White Muscle Fibres
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The Athletes and Their Sports: Red Vs White Muscle Fibres
The body of normal vertebrates, including humans, is composed of white and red muscles. Red muscles fibres contract slowly but last have long endurance and have high-level blood composition, which ensures continued oxidising of the body during low-intensity exercises lasting extended timescales. The topic is important since fast-switch or red muscles enable athletes to participate in low- intensity but long endurance sports like a long marathon. On the other hand, white muscle fibres use a lot of energy, create energy anaerobically with the absence of oxygen, and contract quickly. These muscle fibres are useful to athletes who participate in high-energy stimulation sports like sprinting, boxing, jumping, and lifting weights (Wu et al., 2018). Current research postulates that red muscles have high levels of lipids and mitochondria, recommended for low intensity and long-enduring span used by sports athletes (Cromie-Lear et al., 2020). Further, white muscle fibre structure constitutes high levels of giant protein titin and thick myofibers to stimulate high...