ArticleFrontiers in physiology2024
Hypoventilation training including maximal end-expiratory breath holding improves the ability to repeat high-intensity efforts in elite judo athletes.
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- Effects of Intermittent Hypoxia Protocols on Physical Performance in Trained and Untrained Individuals: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- Repeated-Sprint Training in Hypoxia Induced by Voluntary Hypoventilation at Low Lung Volume: A Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- Is there a consensus on the optimal setting for repeated-sprint training in hypoxia induced by voluntary hypoventilation? : A reply to: "Methodological limitations when investigating the acute physiological responses to repeated-sprint exercise with maximum end-expiratory breath holds".European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Acute and chronic application of novel incremental breath-hold technique increases endurance exercise performance in healthy men and male military personnel.Physiological reports · 2026Article
- Hypoxic Training for Judo: Practices, Perceptions and Education of Judo Athletes and Performance Staff.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Acute physiological responses during repeated sprint training with maximum end-expiratory breath-holds.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- A century of anti-G straining maneuvers. Are there further changes in AGSM physical training that can improve +Gz tolerance? A scoping review.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Review
- Accuracy of Rhythm Diagnostic Systems' MultiSenseSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Breathing less to win Paris 2024 gold: A case study using voluntary hypoventilation at low lung volume-based training in a para-badminton athlete.Journal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineeringArticle
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Abstract
Purpose: To investigate the effects of a repeated-sprint training in hypoxia induced by voluntary hypoventilation at low lung volume (RSH-VHL) including end-expiratory breath holding (EEBH) of maximal duration. Methods: Over a 4-week period, twenty elite judo athletes (10 women and 10 men) were randomly split into two groups to perform 8 sessions of rowing repeated-sprint exercise either with RSH-VHL (each sprint with maximal EEBH) or with unrestricted breathing (RSN, 10-s sprints). Before (Pre-), 5 days after (Post-1) and 12 days after (Post-2) the last training session, participants completed a repeated-sprint ability (RSA) test on a rowing ergometer (8 × 25-s "all-out" repetitions interspersed with 25 s of passive recovery). Power output (PO), oxygen uptake, perceptual-motor capacity (turning off a traffic light with a predetermined code), cerebral (Δ[Hb Results: From Pre-to Post-1 and Post-2, maximal PO, mean PO (MPO) of the first half of the test (repetitions 1-4), oxygen uptake, end-repetition cerebral Δ[Hb Conclusion: Four weeks of RSH-VHL including maximal EEBH improved the ability of elite judo athletes to repeat high-intensity efforts. The performance improvement, observed 5 days but not 12 days after training, may be due to enhanced muscle perfusion. The unchanged oxygen uptake and the decrease in cerebral regional blood volume observed at the same time suggest that a blood volume redistribution occurred after the RSH-VHL intervention to meet the increase in muscle perfusion.
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