Timing of return from altitude training for optimal sea level performance

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 837-843

  Chapman, Robert F ^a   Stickford, Abigail S Laymon ^a   Lundby, Carsten ^b   Levine, Benjamin D ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endurance athletes; Hematological acclimatization; Live high train low; Neocytolysis; Oxygen cost of breathing; Ventilatory acclimatization

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG VENTILATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LUNG; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84901238213     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00663.2013     Document Type: Review

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