Metabolomics of Endurance Capacity in World Tour Professional Cyclists.

ABSTRACT: The study of elite athletes provides a unique opportunity to define the upper limits of human physiology and performance. Across a variety of sports, these individuals have trained to optimize the physiological parameters of their bodies in order to compete on the world stage. To characterize endurance capacity, techniques such as heart rate monitoring, indirect calorimetry, and whole blood lactate measurement have provided insight into oxygen utilization, and substrate utilization and preference, as well as total metabolic capacity. However, while these techniques enable the measurement of individual, representative variables critical for sports performance, they lack the molecular resolution that is needed to understand which metabolic adaptations are necessary to influence these metrics

SUBMITTER: San-Millan I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291837 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature