Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2004
The critical power model for intermittent exercise.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Muscle metabolic responses during high-intensity intermittent exercise measured by (31)P-MRS: relationship to the critical power concept.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2013Trial
- The Measurement and Application of Critical Speed and D' in Running: A Scoping Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Comparison of Physiological Responses between a W´BAL-INT Training Model and a Critical Power Test.Journal of human kinetics · 2024Article
- Modelling human endurance: power laws vs critical power.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Critical power, W' and W' reconstitution in women and men.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- Development and validation of dynamic bioenergetic model for intermittent ergometer cycling.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- Can Popular High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) Models Lead to Impossible Training Sessions?Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Using Field Based Data to Model Sprint Track Cycling Performance.Sports medicine - open · 2021Review
- Validity and Reliability of Hydraulic-Analogy Bioenergetic Models in Sprint Roller Skiing.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- High-intensity decreasing interval training (HIDIT) increases time above 90%European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- The Application of Critical Power, the Work Capacity above Critical Power (W'), and its Reconstitution: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence and Implications for Cycling Training Prescription.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Exercise tolerance during flat over-ground intermittent running: modelling the expenditure and reconstitution kinetics of work done above critical power.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- A survey of mathematical models of human performance using power and energy.Sports medicine - open · 2019Review
- Modeling the Benefits of Cooperative Drafting: Is There an Optimal Strategy to Facilitate a Sub-2-Hour Marathon Performance?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Article
- The Critical Power Model as a Potential Tool for Anti-doping.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
- Effects of recovery interval duration on the parameters of the critical power model for incremental exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2017Article
- The 'Critical Power' Concept: Applications to Sports Performance with a Focus on Intermittent High-Intensity Exercise.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Review
- W' expenditure and reconstitution during severe intensity constant power exercise: mechanistic insight into the determinants of W'.Physiological reports · 2016Article
- Intramuscular determinants of the ability to recover work capacity above critical power.European journal of applied physiology · 2015Article
- Maximal oxygen consumption in healthy humans: theories and facts.European journal of applied physiology · 2014Review
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Abstract
This paper develops and illustrates the critical power model for intermittent work. Model theoretic development reveals that total endurance time is always a step function of one or more of the four independent variables: work interval power output ( P(w)), rest interval power output ( P(r)), work interval duration ( t(w)), and rest interval duration ( t(r)). Six endurance-trained male athletes recorded their best performances during the season in 3-, 5-, and 10-km races, and performed three different intermittent running tests to exhaustion in random order, recording their total endurance times. These data were used to illustrate the model and compare anaerobic distance capacities (alpha) and critical velocities (beta) estimated from each type of exercise. Good fits of the model to data were obtained in all cases: 0.954< R(2)<0.999. Critical velocity was found to be significantly less when estimated using an intermittent versus continuous running protocol.
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