| Determinants of time trial performance and maximal incremental exercise in highly trained endurance athletes. | |
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PMID: 21885805 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Human endurance performance can be predicted from maximal oxygen consumption (VO(2max)), lactate threshold, and exercise efficiency. These physiologic parameters, however, are not wholly exclusive from one another and their interplay is complex. Accordingly, we sought to identify more specific measurements explaining the range of performance among athletes. Out of 150 separate variables we identified 10 principal factors responsible for hematological, cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and neurologic variation in 16 highly trained cyclists. These principal factors were then correlated with a 26 km time trial and test of maximal incremental power output. Average power output during the 26 km time trial was attributed to, in order of importance, oxidative phosphorylation capacity of the m. vastus lateralis (p=0.0005), steady state submaximal blood lactate concentrations (p=0.0017), and maximal leg oxygenation (O(2LEG)) (p=0.0295) accounting for 78% of the variation in time trial performance. Variability in maximal power output, on the other hand, was attributed to total body hemoglobin mass (Hb(mass); p=0.0038), VO(2max) (p=0.0213), and O(2LEG) (p=0.0463). In conclusion: 1) Skeletal muscle oxidative capacity is the primary predictor of time trial performance in highly trained cyclists; 2) The strongest predictor for maximal incremental power output is Hb(mass); and 3) Overall exercise performance (time trial performance + maximal incremental power output) correlates most strongly to measures regarding the capability for oxygen transport, high VO(2max) and Hb(mass), in addition to measures of oxygen utilization, maximal oxidative phosphorylation and electron transport system capacities in the skeletal muscle. |
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Robert Acton Jacobs; Peter Rasmussen; Christoph Siebenmann; Víctor Díaz; Max Gassmann; Dominik Pesta; Erich Gnaiger; Nikolai Baastrup Nordsborg; Paul Robach; Carsten Lundby |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-9-1 |
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Title: Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) Volume: - ISSN: 1522-1601 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-9-2 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8502536 Medline TA: J Appl Physiol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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1University of Zurich. |
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