Under the Hood: Skeletal Muscle Determinants of Endurance Performance.

ABSTRACT: In the past decades, researchers have extensively studied (elite) athletes' physiological responses to understand how to maximize their endurance performance. In endurance sports, whole-body measurements such as the maximal oxygen consumption, lactate threshold, and efficiency/economy play a key role in performance. Although these determinants are known to interact, it has also been demonstrated that athletes rarely excel in all three. The leading question is how athletes reach exceptional values in one or all of these determinants to optimize their endurance performance, and how such performance can be explained by (combinations of) underlying physiological determinants. In this review, we advance on Joyner and Coyle's conceptual framework of endurance performance, by integrating a meta-a

SUBMITTER: van der Zwaard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8371266 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature