How Stored ATP Provides Explosive Energy

June 20, 2018

Transcribed from video:

– This comes from a couple of different places. So the energy comes from a couple of different places. In fact, it only comes from one place, it only comes from this process. But, this process happens in few different ways. Now, as you guys are sitting here now, you have some ATP circulating in your body. So that’s called stored ATP. And that’s just all these little batteries floating around in your blood. Ready to go. So, if I said to you now, sprint down to the end of the road. You’re going to sprint for 20 metres. You know, it’s going to take you five seconds. You would be able to use the ATP that’s there already in your body. And you can use that ATP to fuel that. Yeah, it’s already there, it’s instant. Which is useful. Cause, if you’ve got a 100 metre sprint, a 20 metre sprint, a single deadlift. It’s really good to have that energy very fast, on call, good to go. However, if that 100 sprint turns into 400, 2K, 20K, you no longer have enough circulating ATP in your body to be able to fuel that. So this stored ATP is really, really good for a very, very short amount of time. After that, it doesn’t really help as much.

Dan Williams

Dan Williams

Founder/Director

Dan Williams is the Director of Range of Motion and leads a team of Exercise Physiologists, Sports Scientists, Physiotherapists and Coaches. He has a Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Health Science) and a Postgraduate Bachelor of Exercise Rehabilitation Science from The University of Western Australia, with minors in Biomechanics and Sport Psychology.

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