Intermittent hypoxia improves endurance performance and submaximal exercise efficiency

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-304

  Katayama, Keisho ^a   Matsuo, Hiroshi ^a   Ishida, Koji ^a   Mori, Shigeo ^a   Miyamura, Miharu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Altitude; Cardiorespiratory adaptation; Distance running; Intermittent hypoxia; Oxygen uptake; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; EXHAUSTION; EXPOSURE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; REST; RUNNING; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATION; TRAINING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANOXIA; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; REST; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141960381     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702903769192250     Document Type: Article

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