Velocity-specific fatigue: Quantifying fatigue during variable velocity cycling

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 904-911

  Gardner, A Scott ^a   Martin, David T ^b   Jenkins, David G ^c   Dyer, Iain ^d   Van Eiden, Jan ^d   Barras, Martin ^b   Martin, James C ^e  

^a ENGLISH INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d High Performance Unit   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue index; Fitness testing; Power; Track cycling

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDALING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME; TRAINING; VELOCITY; WORK CAPACITY;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; BICYCLING; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PHYSICAL EXERTION;

EID: 67650085822     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318190c2cc     Document Type: Article

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