ArticlePloS one2015
The correlation between running economy and maximal oxygen uptake: cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships in highly trained distance runners.
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- The Relationship between Running Power and Running Economy in Well-Trained Distance Runners.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Comparison of running and cycling economy in runners, cyclists, and triathletes.European journal of applied physiology · 2018Article
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- Running Technique is an Important Component of Running Economy and Performance.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2017Article
- Lower Leg Length is Associated with Running Economy in High Level Caucasian Distance Runners.Journal of human kinetics · 2017Article
- Fructose ingestion impairs expression of genes involved in skeletal muscle's adaptive response to aerobic exercise.Genes & nutrition · 2017Article
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Abstract
A positive relationship between running economy and maximal oxygen uptake (V̇O2max) has been postulated in trained athletes, but previous evidence is equivocal and could have been confounded by statistical artefacts. Whether this relationship is preserved in response to running training (changes in running economy and V̇O2max) has yet to be explored. This study examined the relationships of (i) running economy and V̇O2max between runners, and (ii) the changes in running economy and V̇O2max that occur within runners in response to habitual training. 168 trained distance runners (males, n = 98, V̇O2max 73.0 ± 6.3 mL∙kg-1∙min-1; females, n = 70, V̇O2max 65.2 ± 5.9 mL kg-1∙min-1) performed a discontinuous submaximal running test to determine running economy (kcal∙km-1). A continuous incremental treadmill running test to volitional exhaustion was used to determine V̇O2max 54 participants (males, n = 27; females, n = 27) also completed at least one follow up assessment. Partial correlation analysis revealed small positive relationships between running economy and V̇O2max (males r = 0.26, females r = 0.25; P<0.006), in addition to moderate positive relationships between the changes in running economy and V̇O2max in response to habitual training (r = 0.35; P<0.001). In conclusion, the current investigation demonstrates that only a small to moderate relationship exists between running economy and V̇O2max in highly trained distance runners. With >85% of the variance in these parameters unexplained by this relationship, these findings reaffirm that running economy and V̇O2max are primarily determined independently.
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