Blood volume, aerobic power, and endurance performance: Potential ergogenic effect of volume loading

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-66

  Warburton, Darren E R ^a   Gledhill, Norman ^b   Quinney, H Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood volume; Oxygen transport; Performance

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDURANCE; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VOLUME; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; PLASMA VOLUME;

EID: 0033628379     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042752-200001000-00011     Document Type: Review

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