A theoretical study of taper characteristics to optimize performance

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1615-1621

  Thomas, Luc ^a,b   Busso, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b SERVICE DE NEUROLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Detraining; Modeling; Overreaching; Recovery; Training schedule

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; FATIGUE; FATIGUE DISSIPATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPTIMAL DAILY TRAINING; OVEREXERTION; OVERLOAD PERIOD; OVERREACHING; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION; THEORY; TRAINING; TRAINING INTENSITY; TRAINING SCHEDULE; TRAINING VOLUME; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; SPORTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 25444473968     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000177461.94156.4b     Document Type: Article

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