ArticlePhysiological reports2015
Ischemic preconditioning accelerates muscle deoxygenation dynamics and enhances exercise endurance during the work-to-work test.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effects of lower limb ischaemic preconditioning: a systematic review.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Pooled it
- Ischemic preconditioning and exercise performance: shedding light through smallest worthwhile change.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Pooled it
- The Effects of Ischemic Preconditioning on Human Exercise Performance.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2016Pooled it
- Ischemic preconditioning with active reperfusion does not improve high-intensity intermittent exercise in youth team sport players.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
- Effects of sprint interval training combined with remote ischaemic preconditioning on vascular function in young women with masked obesity.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
- Effects of Acute and Repeated Ischemic Preconditioning on Recovery from Muscle Fatigue after High-Intensity Swim Training in Male Amateur Swimmers.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2025Trial
- Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning on Endurance Running Performance in the Heat.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2024Trial
- Targeted effect of ischemic preconditioning on the gas exchange threshold in healthy males and females.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
- Similar Recovery of Maximal Cycling Performance after Ischemic Preconditioning, Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation or Active Recovery in Endurance Athletes.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2020Trial
- Effects of remote limb ischemic conditioning on muscle strength in healthy young adults: A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Impact of 8 weeks of repeated ischemic preconditioning on running performance.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Trial
- Effects of ischemic preconditioning on economy, VOEuropean journal of applied physiology · 2018Trial
- Ischemic preconditioning does not alter muscle sympathetic responses to static handgrip and metaboreflex activation in young healthy men.Physiological reports · 2017Trial
- No influence of ischemic preconditioning on running economy.European journal of applied physiology · 2017Trial
- Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training with Blood Flow Restriction Versus Normobaric Hypoxia on Physiological Parameters in Apparently Healthy Young Men.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Applying ischemic preconditioning prior to endurance training improves hematological profile and performance in long-distance runners.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- The effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on upper extremity strength in healthy male adults: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Enhancing physical performance with ischemic preconditioning: a systematic review and meta-analysis of moderators and performance outcomes.Biology of sport · 2026Review
- Influence of local and remote ischemic preconditioning on 3-min all-out exercise performance: A randomized controlled crossover study.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Article
- Acute effects of ischemic preconditioning and isometric exercise on blood pressure in prehypertensive males.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Article
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Abstract
Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) improves maximal exercise performance. However, the potential mechanism(s) underlying the beneficial effects of IPC remain unknown. The dynamics of pulmonary oxygen uptake (VO2) and muscle deoxygenation during exercise is frequently used for assessing O2 supply and extraction. Thus, this study examined the effects of IPC on systemic and local O2 dynamics during the incremental step transitions from low- to moderate- and from moderate- to severe-intensity exercise. Fifteen healthy, male subjects were instructed to perform the work-to-work cycling exercise test, which was preceded by the control (no occlusion) or IPC (3 × 5 min, bilateral leg occlusion at >300 mmHg) treatments. The work-to-work test was performed by gradually increasing the exercise intensity as follows: low intensity at 30 W for 3 min, moderate intensity at 90% of the gas exchange threshold (GET) for 4 min, and severe intensity at 70% of the difference between the GET and VO2 peak until exhaustion. During the exercise test, the breath-by-breath pulmonary VO2 and near-infrared spectroscopy-derived muscle deoxygenation were continuously recorded. Exercise endurance during severe-intensity exercise was significantly enhanced by IPC. There were no significant differences in pulmonary VO2 dynamics between treatments. In contrast, muscle deoxygenation dynamics in the step transition from low- to moderate-intensity was significantly faster in IPC than in CON (27.2 ± 2.9 vs. 19.8 ± 0.9 sec, P < 0.05). The present findings showed that IPC accelerated muscle deoxygenation dynamics in moderate-intensity exercise and enhanced severe-intensity exercise endurance during work-to-work test. The IPC-induced effects may result from mitochondrial activation in skeletal muscle, as indicated by the accelerated O2 extraction.
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