Table 1.

Selected variables from FF and ISC protocols

	Free flow	Ischaemia	P	95% CI
Force
MVCpre (N)	323 ± 27	335 ± 27	0.04	−24.7, −0.4
Fatigue (FTIpost/FTIpre× 100)	74.2 ± 2.3	64.3 ± 2.9	<0.001	6.0, 13.8
CARpre	0.99 ± 0.005	1.0 ± 0.001	0.26	−0.002, 0.004
CARend	0.92 ± 0.002	0.97 ± 0.001	0.11	−0.001, 0.01
Metabolites at rest
[PCr] (mm)	38.2 ± 0.02	38.0 ± 0.03	0.54	−0.56, 1.02
[Pi] (mm)	4.3 ± 0.2	4.5 ± 0.3	0.71	−0.95, 0.66
pH	7.00 ± 0.01	7.01 ± 0.01	0.25	−0.04, 0.01
H2PO4− (mm)	1.5 ± 0.1	1.6 ± 0.1	0.89	−0.26, 0.23
PME (mm)	3.0 ± 0.4	2.7 ± 0.3	0.75	−1.1, 1.4
ADP (mm)	0.008 ± 0.0	0.008 ± 0.0	0.50	−0.002, 0.001
AMP (μm)	0.007 ± 0.0	0.008 ± 0.0	0.40	−0.004, 0.002
Metabolites at end-exercise
[PCr] (mm)	9.9 ± 0.9	5.1 ± 0.8	<0.001	2.7, 6.8
[Pi] (mm)	32.6 ± 0.9	37.4 ± 0.8	<0.001	−6.8, −2.7
pH	6.70 ± 0.03	6.60 ± 0.05	0.10	−0.02, 0.22
H2PO4− (mm)	17.1 ± 0.9	21.4 ± 1.1	0.004	−6.9, −1.6
PME (mm)	8.4 ± 0.6	11.4 ± 1.3	0.07	−6.44, 0.29
ADP (mm)	0.15 ± 0.03	0.39 ± 0.09	0.02	−0.40, −0.04
AMP (μm)	2.7 ± 0.9	23.6 ± 8.9	0.04	−40.2, −1.4
[ATP] (mm)	8.5 ± 0.5	8.2 ± 0.6	0.67	−1.1, 1.7

Values are means ±s.e.m. 95% confidence intervals are presented for the difference between FF and ISC.