Enhanced durability predicts success in amateur road cycling: evidence of power output declines DOI Creative Commons
Artur Barsumyan,

Christian Soost,

René Burchard

et al.

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7

Published: May 14, 2025

Purpose Durability refers to an athlete's capacity sustain optimal performance levels during prolonged physical exertion. has been recognized as important and remains a key factor in endurance performance, particularly among amateur athletes who make up the largest segment of sports community. In modern era, where remote coaching become increasingly prevalent, there is need for new methods measure durability effectively without constraints laboratory. The aim this study was quantify well-trained age-group cycling using home-based test measures, identify predictor provide practical recommendations improving through training. Methods Fourteen endurance-trained cyclists (mean 37.5 ± 5.7 years; VO 2 max 52.0 7.4 ml·kg − ¹·min ¹; training volume 9.6 2.2 h·week ¹) took part study. Participants were divided into two groups based on less successful achievements: Power output heart rate response 5- 20 min time trial (TT) efforts measured watt under both fresh fatigued conditions. fatiguing protocol involved at 70%–80% participants' initial TT power until 1,000 kJ work completed, followed by TT. Results Successful have significantly lower drop interval condition compared counterparts. average only half high (6.5%) it (12.5%). For 5 between fatigue state, no differences could be found. Conclusion findings demonstrate that exhibit better than after defined amount work, enabling them higher efforts.

Language: Английский

Do heart rates of elite marathon runners exhibit room for drift? Implications for durability DOI Creative Commons
Fuminori Takayama, Atsushi Aoyagi

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7

Published: April 14, 2025

Language: Английский

Citations

0
Data driven shoe design improves running economy beyond state-of-the-art Advanced Footwear Technology running shoes DOI Creative Commons

John Kuzmeski,

Montgomery Bertschy, Laura Healey

et al.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 19, 2025

Abstract Advanced Footwear Technology (AFT) has enabled remarkable improvements in running performance over traditional marathon racing shoes. However, reported differences between state-of-the-art AFT models are small, and vary across individuals. To assess if the benefits of have been fully realized or further economy can be unlocked using modern computational design optimization techniques, we compared a prototype shoe developed data-driven process (PUMA Fast-R 3; FR3) against models. We quantified for 15 trained runners (11M, 4F) this three commercially available models: PUMA 2 (FR2), Nike Alphafly 3 (NIKE), Adidas Adios Pro Evo (ADI). Running FR3 was 3.15 ± 1.24%, 3.62 1.25%, 3.54 1.16% better than FR2, NIKE ADI (all p < 0.001), respectively, every individual performed best While step parameters were similar had lower frequency (p = 0.013) longer contact time (both p<0.001). Our results suggest that analysis is promising frontier design, offering potential personalized

Language: Английский

Citations

0
Enhanced durability predicts success in amateur road cycling: evidence of power output declines DOI Creative Commons
Artur Barsumyan,

Christian Soost,

René Burchard

et al.

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7

Published: May 14, 2025

Purpose Durability refers to an athlete's capacity sustain optimal performance levels during prolonged physical exertion. has been recognized as important and remains a key factor in endurance performance, particularly among amateur athletes who make up the largest segment of sports community. In modern era, where remote coaching become increasingly prevalent, there is need for new methods measure durability effectively without constraints laboratory. The aim this study was quantify well-trained age-group cycling using home-based test measures, identify predictor provide practical recommendations improving through training. Methods Fourteen endurance-trained cyclists (mean 37.5 ± 5.7 years; VO 2 max 52.0 7.4 ml·kg − ¹·min ¹; training volume 9.6 2.2 h·week ¹) took part study. Participants were divided into two groups based on less successful achievements: Power output heart rate response 5- 20 min time trial (TT) efforts measured watt under both fresh fatigued conditions. fatiguing protocol involved at 70%–80% participants' initial TT power until 1,000 kJ work completed, followed by TT. Results Successful have significantly lower drop interval condition compared counterparts. average only half high (6.5%) it (12.5%). For 5 between fatigue state, no differences could be found. Conclusion findings demonstrate that exhibit better than after defined amount work, enabling them higher efforts.

Language: Английский

Citations

0