The Yo-Yo IR2 test: Physiological response, reliability, and application to elite soccer

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1666-1673

  Krustrup, Peter ^a,b   Mohr, Magni ^a   Nybo, Lars ^a   Jensen, Jack Majgaard ^a   Nielsen, Jens Jung ^a   Bangsbo, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Creatine phosphate; Heart rate; Lactate; Level of competition; Playing position; Seasonal periods

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPETITION; DENMARK; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EVALUATION; EXHAUSTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RUNNING; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TREADMILL ERGOMETRY; VALIDITY; YO YO INTERMITTENT RECOVERY LEVEL 2 TEST;

ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; PHOSPHOCREATINE; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCCER;

EID: 33748530978     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000227538.20799.08     Document Type: Article

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