Responses to training in cross-country skiers
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Vol. 31 (8), 1211-1217
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199908000-00020
Abstract
Responses to training in cross-country skiers. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 1211-1217, 1999. This study evaluated whether cross-country skiers who did not respond positively to a training program consisting of high volume and low intensity would improve if high-intensity training volume was doubled during a subsequent training year. During the first year of the study, cross-country skiers (N = 14) were evaluated for O2max, O2threshold, lactate response, max arm power, and competitive results after a standard training program. During the second year, the athletes were divided into a control group (athletes who had responded well to the training) and a treatment group (athletes who had responded poorly to the training). The control group (N = 7) repeated the previous year's training program. The treatment group (N = 7) was given a modified training program which increased high-intensity training time as a percentage of total training from 35% and decreased low-intensity training volume 22%. The treatment group, using the high-intensity training program, demonstrated significantly improved O2max, O2threshold, max arm power, and competitive results (P Increased volume of high-intensity training may improve competitive results in cross-country skiers who fail to respond to increased volume of low-intensity training.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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