Breathing Reserve and Lung Function in Female Elite Runners.

ABSTRACT: Breathing reserve (BR) is the remaining proportion of achievable minute ventilation that remains unutilized at total exhaustion during exercise. Previous studies have found a smaller BR in endurance-trained athletes compared to untrained controls. However, most of these studies have examined men. Given that women have a greater ventilatory limitation than stature-matched men, the present cross-sectional study aimed to investigate how this sex difference influences BR and lung function tests in endurance-trained females compared to matched, untrained females. To obtain further insight, we also aimed to investigate whether VO₂max serves as a predictor of BR. We examined 15 female elite runners and 15 healthy, matched female controls aged 24-33 years with regard to pulmonary functi

SUBMITTER: Kyte FG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12299564 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature