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ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2019

VO₂FITTING: A Free and Open-Source Software for Modelling Oxygen Uptake Kinetics in Swimming and other Exercise Modalities.

Rodrigo Zacca, Rui Azevedo, Pedro Figueiredo, João Paulo Vilas-Boas, Flávio A de S Castro, David B Pyne, Ricardo J Fernandes

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Article in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Rodrigo ZaccaCentre of Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto 4200-450, Portugal. rodrigozacca@yahoo.com.br.ORCID 0000-0003-0494-0000
Rui AzevedoCESPU, Institute of Research and Advanced Training in Health Sciences and Technologies (IINFACTS), Gandra PRD 4585-116, Portugal. rui.azevedo@iucs.cespu.pt.ORCID 0000-0002-8904-002X
Pedro FigueiredoPortugal Football School, Portuguese Football Federation, Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo 1495-433, Portugal. pedfig@me.com.
João Paulo Vilas-BoasCentre of Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto 4200-450, Portugal. jpvb@fade.up.pt.ORCID 0000-0002-4109-2939
Flávio A de S CastroAquatic Sports Research Group, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90690-200, Brazil. souza.castro@ufrgs.br.ORCID 0000-0003-0848-8226
David B PyneResearch Institute for Sport and Exercise, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2617, Australia. david.pyne@canberra.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-1555-5079
Ricardo J FernandesCentre of Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto 4200-450, Portugal. ricfer@fade.up.pt.ORCID 0000-0002-5811-0443

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The assessment of oxygen uptake (VO₂) kinetics is a valuable non-invasive way to evaluate cardiorespiratory and metabolic response to exercise. The aim of the study was to develop, describe and evaluate an online VO₂ fitting tool (VO₂FITTING) for dynamically editing, processing, filtering and modelling VO₂ responses to exercise. VO₂FITTING was developed in Shiny, a web application framework for R language. Validation VO₂ datasets with both noisy and non-noisy data were developed and applied to widely-used models (n = 7) for describing different intensity transitions to verify concurrent validity. Subsequently, we then conducted an experiment with age-group swimmers as an example, illustrating how VO₂FITTING can be used to model VO₂ kinetics. Perfect fits were observed, and parameter estimates perfectly matched the known inputted values for all available models (standard error = 0; p < 0.001). The VO₂FITTING is a valid, free and open-source software for characterizing VO₂ kinetics in exercise, which was developed to help the research and performance analysis communities.

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exercisefreemodellingopen-sourceoxygen uptake kineticssoftware

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PMID30678373
PMCPMC6409559

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