Is live high-train low altitude training relevant for elite athletes with already high total hemoglobin mass?

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 303-305

  Robach, P ^a   Lundby, C ^b  

^a Ecole Nationale des Sports de Montagne (ENSA)   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING;

EID: 84861432355     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: 16000838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2012.01457.x     Document Type: Editorial

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