How do endurance runners actually train? Relationship with competition performance

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 496-504

  Esteve Lanao, Jonathan ^a   San Juan, Alejandro F ^a   Earnest, Conrad P ^b   Foster, Carl ^c   Lucia, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Cooper Inst Ctr Hum Perf/N R ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart rate; Respiratory compensation threshold; Training; Training impulse; Ventilatory threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPETITION; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEMETRY; TRAINING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HEART RATE; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 14844340796     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000155393.78744.86     Document Type: Article

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