No improvement in race performance by naps in male ultra-endurance cyclists in a 600-km ultra-cycling race

Chinese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Knechtle, Beat ^a,b   Wirth, Andrea ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^a   Rüst, Christoph Alexander ^b   Rosemann, Thomas ^b   Lepers, Romuald ^c  

^a State Hospital St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Performance; Sleep; Support; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAP; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RACE TIME; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; SUPPORT GROUP; TIME; TRAINING; ULTRA ENDURANCE CYCLIST;

EID: 84859042902     PISSN: 03044920     EISSN: 26660059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4077/CJP.2012.BAA022     Document Type: Article

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