Effects of Normoxia and Hyperoxia on the Rate of Fatigue Development in Human Respiratory Muscles under Conditions of Intensive Resistive Load

We evaluated the rate of fatigue development in the inspiratory muscles of healthy trained individuals during graded bicycle exercise and high resistive resistance to breath under conditions of normoxia and hyperoxia. Fatigue of the respiratory muscles was assessed by tension-time index (TT m = P m I/P m I max xT I /T T ), by the dynamics of changes in the ratio of respiratory volume to inspiratory muscles force, and by ratio of the mean amplitudes of electrical activity in high and low frequency ranges. It was found that the limit of extreme working capacity in humans during heavy resistive load is related to fatigue of the inspiratory muscles developing with the same rate under conditions of normoxia or hyperoxia.