Table 1. Myonuclear and satellite cell (SC) characteristics in human vastus lateralis muscle before (PRE) and after (POST) competitive-season.

	PRE	POST
Fibre area/nucleus (μm2)	3,421 ± 426	1,438 ± 150**
Muscle fibre cross-sectional area (μm2)	5,739 ± 393	5,731 ± 443
Myonuclear length (μm)	7.65 ± 0.25	7.39 ± 0.23
Myonuclei/mm fibre length	127.70 ± 18.92	287.80 ± 23.00**
SC %	5.57 ± 0.43	1.79 ± 0.10***

Data presented as mean ± SEM. POST significantly different from PRE as

** P < 0.01 and

*** P < 0.001.