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Muscle Types White meat - fast glycolytic - Type II fibers - Fast twitch Red meat - slow oxidative - Type 1 fibers - slow twitch		Your Answer	Correct Answer
1. Red meat is very good at endurance events - more so than white meat.	True False
2. Red meat has more mitochondria per cell than white meat.	True False
3. White meat contains more capillaries than red meat.	True False
4. White meat fatigues more quickly than red meat.	True False
5. White meat is very good at strength events.	True False
6. Red meat has more myoglobin than does white meat.	True False
7. Red meat does not use any form of anaerobic respiration. (Think)	True False
8. White meat fibers are thicker in diameter than red meat fibers. (Think: football vs marathon)	True False
9. With the proper exercise, it is easy to change red meat fibers into white meat fibers.	True False
10. The percentage of red and white meat in your body is largly due to genetics.	True False

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