The road to gold: Training and peaking characteristics in the year prior to a gold medal endurance performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Tnønessen, Espen ^a   Sylta, Øystein ^b   Haugen, Thomas A ^a   Hem, Erlend ^a   Svendsen, Ida S ^c   Seiler, Stephen ^b  

^a Norwegian Olympic Federation   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITION; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SPORTING EVENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ATHLETE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORWAY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ADULT; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84904261546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101796     Document Type: Article

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