@article{uneatlantico9477,
          number = {11},
          volume = {37},
          author = {Mar{\'i}a Dolores Morenas-Aguilar and Santiago A. Ruiz-Alias and Aitor Marcos Blanco and Carlos Lago-Fuentes and Felipe Garc{\'i}a-Pinillos and Alejandro P{\'e}rez-Castilla},
           month = {Noviembre},
            year = {2023},
           pages = {2185--2191},
         journal = {Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research},
           title = {Does the Menstrual Cycle Impact the Maximal Neuromuscular Capacities of Women? An Analysis Before and After a Graded Treadmill Test to Exhaustion},
             url = {http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/id/eprint/9477/},
        abstract = {Morenas-Aguilar, MD, Ruiz-Alias, SA, Blanco, AM, Lago-Fuentes, C, Garc{\'i}a-Pinillos, F, and P{\'e}rez-Castilla, A. Does the menstrual cycle impact the maximal neuromuscular capacities of women? An analysis before and after a graded treadmill test to exhaustion. J Strength Cond Res 37(11): 2185?2191, 2023. This study explored the effect of the menstrual cycle (MC) on the maximal neuromuscular capacities of the lower-body muscles obtained before and after a graded exercise test conducted on a treadmill to exhaustion. Sixteen physically active women were tested at ?11 {$\pm$} 3, ?5 {$\pm$} 3, and 5 {$\pm$} 3 days from the luteinizing peak for the early follicular, late follicular, and midluteal phases. In each session, the individualized load-velocity (L-V) relationship variables (load-axis intercept [L0], velocity-axis intercept [v0], and area under the L-V relationship line [Aline]) were obtained before and after a graded exercise test conducted on a treadmill to exhaustion using the 2-point method (3 countermovement jumps with a 0.5-kg barbell and 2 back squats against a load linked to a mean velocity of 0.55 m?second?1). At the beginning of each session, no significant differences were reported for L0 (p = 0.726; ES {$\leq$} 0.18), v0 (p = 0.202; ES {$\leq$} 0.37), and Aline (p = 0.429; ES {$\leq$} 0.30) between the phases. The MC phase {$\times$} time interaction did not reach statistical significance for any L-V relationship variable (p ? 0.073). A significant main effect of ?time? was observed for L0 (p {\ensuremath{<}} 0.001; ES = ?0.77) and Aline (p = 0.002; ES = ?0.59) but not for v0 (p = 0.487; ES = 0.12). These data suggest that the lower-body maximal neuromuscular capacities obtained before and after a graded treadmill test are not significantly affected by MC, although there is a high variability in the individual response.}
}