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Aerobic Respiration Describe Slow Skeletal Muscle Fibres Powerful

Front Describe slow skeletal muscle fibres.
Back - less powerful contractions over a longer period of time
- found in muscles which must contract very frequently eg - calves

- thinner

- adapted for more aerobic respiration
- more mitochondria for more aerobic respiration to produce more ATP

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