Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2005
Effects of concurrent inspiratory and expiratory muscle training on respiratory and exercise performance in competitive swimmers.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of respiratory muscle training on swimming performance, respiratory muscle function, and pulmonary function of competitive swimmers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Factors Relating to Sprint Swimming Performance: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of respiratory muscle training on swimming performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of respiratory muscle training on exercise performance in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2012Pooled it
- The Effect of Respiratory Muscle Training on the Pulmonary Function, Lung Ventilation, and Endurance Performance of Young Soccer Players.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Eight Weeks of Inspiratory Muscle Training Improves Pulmonary Function in Disabled Swimmers-A Randomized Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Effects of inspiratory muscle training on respiratory muscle electromyography and dyspnea during exercise in healthy men.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2017Trial
- Ventilatory function in breath-hold divers: effect of glossopharyngeal insufflation.European journal of applied physiology · 2010Trial
- Inspiratory muscle training improves 100 and 200 m swimming performance.European journal of applied physiology · 2010Trial
- Pulmonary adaptations to swim and inspiratory muscle training.European journal of applied physiology · 2008Trial
- The influence of inspiratory and expiratory muscle training upon rowing performance.European journal of applied physiology · 2007Trial
- Respiratory muscle training improves swimming endurance in divers.European journal of applied physiology · 2007Trial
- Indirect Calorimetry in Spontaneously Breathing, Mechanically Ventilated and Extracorporeally Oxygenated Patients: An Engineering Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Inspiratory Muscle Rehabilitation Training in Pediatrics: What Is the Evidence?Canadian respiratory journal · 2022Review
- Evaluation of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction and rhinitis in adolescent elite swimmers.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2021Article
- Effect of inspiratory muscle-loaded exercise training on peak oxygen uptake and ventilatory response during incremental exercise under normoxia and hypoxia.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2020Article
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- Effects of expiratory muscle training on the frail elderly's respiratory function.Journal of physical therapy science · 2018Article
- Putative Role of Respiratory Muscle Training to Improve Endurance Performance in Hypoxia: A Review.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
- Influence of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Ventilatory Efficiency and Cycling Performance in Normoxia and Hypoxia.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The efficiency of the respiratory system presents significant limitations on the body's ability to perform exercise due to the effects of the increased work of breathing, respiratory muscle fatigue, and dyspnoea. Respiratory muscle training is an intervention that may be able to address these limitations, but the impact of respiratory muscle training on exercise performance remains controversial. Therefore, in this study we evaluated the effects of a 12-week (10 sessions week(-1)) concurrent inspiratory and expiratory muscle training (CRMT) program in 34 adolescent competitive swimmers. The CRMT program consisted of 6 weeks during which the experimental group (E, n = 17) performed CRMT and the sham group (S, n = 17) performed sham CRMT, followed by 6 weeks when the E and S groups performed CRMT of differing intensities. CRMT training resulted in a significant improvement in forced inspiratory volume in 1 s (FIV1.0) (P = 0.050) and forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1.0) (P = 0.045) in the E group, which exceeded the S group's results. Significant improvements in pulmonary function, breathing power, and chemoreflex ventilation threshold were observed in both groups, and there was a trend toward an improvement in swimming critical speed after 12 weeks of training (P = 0.08). We concluded that although swim training results in attenuation of the ventilatory response to hypercapnia and in improvements in pulmonary function and sustainable breathing power, supplemental respiratory muscle training has no additional effect except on dynamic pulmonary function variables.
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