Neuromuscular performance and biochemical response to maximal anaerobic effort: assessment of longterm adaptations in professional tennis
Tomasz Waldziński, Jan Mieszkowski, Bartłomiej Niespodziński, Paulina Brzezińska, Aleksandra Durzyńska, Magdalena Kochanowicz, Jędrzej Antosiewicz, Andrzej Kochanowicz · 2026
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Tomasz Waldziński and seven colleagues compare how professional tennis players and active men respond, in muscle and blood, to a bout of all-out anaerobic effort. Tennis demands repeated sprints and hard strokes with short rests, which may train adaptations. The 2026 study tested 14 professionals and 15 active non-players. Both groups performed two 30-second Wingate cycling efforts, with knee contractions and muscle electrical recordings before and after. Blood was sampled at rest, right after, and at three and 24 hours.
Players produced higher peak power, by 7.8 percent absolutely and 10.1 percent relative to body weight. They also kept their fast knee-flexion force after the effort, while the other group lost 26 percent of it. Players' front thigh muscle fired harder after the effort. Their blood showed stronger antioxidant capacity and more IL-10, with a blunted rise in IL-6. Years of elite play, the authors argue, reshape fatigue handling and recovery chemistry.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tomasz Waldziński, Jan Mieszkowski, Bartłomiej Niespodziński, Paulina Brzezińska, Aleksandra Durzyńska, Magdalena Kochanowicz, Jędrzej Antosiewicz, Andrzej Kochanowicz |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55952 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |