Hypoxic repeat sprint training improves rugby player's repeated sprint but not endurance performance

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2017, Pages

  Hamlin, Michael J ^a   Olsen, Peter D ^b   Marshall, Helen C ^b   Lizamore, Catherine A ^a   Elliot, Catherine A ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ARA INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Intermittent hypoxic training; Normobaric hypoxia; Repeated sprint ability; Team sports; Yo Yo intermittent recovery test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; REPEAT SPRINT TRAINING; RUGBY; TRAINING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85014182484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00024     Document Type: Article

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