'Living high-training low': Effect of moderate-altitude acclimatization with low-altitude training on performance

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 102-112

  Levine, Benjamin D ^a,c   Stray Gundersen, James ^b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Exercise; Hypoxia; Sports; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; STEADY STATE; TRAINING;

EID: 0030848144     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.83.1.102     Document Type: Article

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