Reliability of cycling gross efficiency using the douglas bag method

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 290-296

  Hopker, James G ^a   Jobson, Simon A ^a   Gregson, Hannah C ^a   Coleman, Damian ^b   Passfield, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cadence; Measurement error; Oxygen consumption; Power output; Submaximal exercise

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 84858194578     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31822cb0d2     Document Type: Article

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