Con: Live high-train low does not improve sea-level performance beyond that achieved with the equivalent living and training at sea level

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 328-330

  Jacobs, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLING; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAINING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84888586142     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2013.1040     Document Type: Article

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