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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2009 Jan;37(1):3–9. doi: 10.1097/JES.0b013e318190ea2e

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Potential sites of failure during muscular activity. A model of the pathway of force production, useful for studies of the mechanisms of fatigue in vivo. Impairment at any site could result in a decrease in force or power output, indicating muscle fatigue. See text for details.