ArticleJournal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)1985
Endurance training in humans: aerobic capacity and structure of skeletal muscle.
Article in Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 1985. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 189 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Effects of Exercise Training on Mitochondrial and Capillary Growth in Human Skeletal Muscle: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Association between "cluster of differentiation 36 (CD36)" and adipose tissue lipolysis during exercise training: a systematic review.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of Exercise Training in Hypoxia Versus Normoxia on Vascular Health.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2016Pooled it
- The Effect of Exercise Training on the Energetic Cost of Cycling.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Pooled it
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- Physiological responses to interval endurance exercise at different levels of blood flow restriction.European journal of applied physiology · 2017Trial
- Acute resistance exercise modulates microRNA expression profiles: Combined tissue and circulatory targeted analyses.PloS one · 2017Trial
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- Cardiac vagal tone, exercise performance and the effect of respiratory training.European journal of applied physiology · 2005Trial
- Eccentric endurance training in subjects with coronary artery disease: a novel exercise paradigm in cardiac rehabilitation?European journal of applied physiology · 2004Trial
- Intramyocellular lipids form an important substrate source during moderate intensity exercise in endurance-trained males in a fasted state.The Journal of physiology · 2003Trial
- Ageing, muscle properties and maximal O(2) uptake rate in humans.The Journal of physiology · 2000Trial
- Muscle GSH-Px activity after prolonged exercise, training, and selenium supplementation.Biological trace element researchTrial
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- Citius, Maius, Melius: Mitochondria and Endurance Performance.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- Near infrared spectroscopy-derived muscle oxidative capacity correlates to oxidative metabolic predictors of performance in highly trained female middle-distance runners.Physiological reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
The adaptation of muscle structure, power output, and mass-specific rate of maximal O2 consumption (VO2max/Mb) with endurance training on bicycle ergometers was studied for five male and five female subjects. Biopsies of vastus lateralis muscle and VO2max determinations were made at the start and end of 6 wk of training. The power output maintained on the ergometer daily for 30 min was adjusted to achieve a heart rate exceeding 85% of the maximum for two-thirds of the training session. It is proposed that the observed preferential proliferation of subsarcolemmal vs. interfibrillar mitochondria and the increase in intracellular lipid deposits are two possible mechanisms by which muscle cells adapt to an increased use of fat as a fuel. The relative increase of VO2max/Mb (14%) with training was found to be smaller by more than twofold than the relative increase in maximal maintained power (33%) and the relative change in the volume density of total mitochondria (+40%). However, the calculated VO2 required at an efficiency of 0.25 to produce the observed mass-specific increase in maximal maintained power matched the actual increase in VO2max/Mb (8.0 and 6.5 ml O2 X min-1 X kg-1, respectively). These results indicate that despite disparate relative changes the absolute change in aerobic capacity at the local level (maintained power) can account for the increase in aerobic capacity observed at the general level (VO2max).
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