Tour de France versus Vuelta a España: Which is harder?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 872-878

  Lucía, Alejandro ^a   Hoyos, Jesús ^b   Santalla, Alfredo ^c   Earnest, Conrad ^d   Chicharro, José L ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Banesto Sports Association   (Spain)

^c University Alphonse X   (Spain)

^d Cooper Institute ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cycling; Heart rate; Intensity; Telemeter; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CYCLING; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

ADULT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; BICYCLING; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERGOMETRY; EXERTION; FRANCE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; SPAIN;

EID: 0038371171     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000064999.82036.B4     Document Type: Article

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