Menstrual cycle: No effect on exercise cardiorespiratory variables or blood lactate concentration

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1098-1106

  Smekal, Gerhard ^a   Von Duvillard, Serge P ^b,f   Frigo, Peter ^c   Tegelhofer, Tina ^a   Pokan, Rochus ^a   Hofmann, Peter ^d   Tschan, Harald ^a   Baron, Ramon ^a   Wonisch, Manfred ^e   Renezeder, Karin ^c   Bachl, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Female hormones; Respiratory gas exchange measures; Sex hormones; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; BREATHING; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERFORMANCE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REST;

ADULT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; AUSTRIA; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LACTATES; LUTEAL PHASE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION;

EID: 34347327205     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e31805371e7     Document Type: Article

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