Comparison of laboratory parameters of a mountain bike specific performance test and a simulated race performance in the field
Journal Title: Journal of the Human and Social Science Researches - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Previous studies have described the need for a tailored performance test to predict mountain bike performance. This test should improve characterisation of intensive and intermittent physiological demands of mountain biking. Therefore, the aim of the study was to identify mountain bike related parameters that can more accurately explain the variance of mountain bike performance. Ten competitive mountain bike riders (age: 34 ± 8.7 years; V̇O2peak: 69 ± 11.1 ml·min−1·kg−1) participated in the following tests: (a) an incremental bicycle ergometer test to determine their individual anaerobic threshold (IAT) and maximal oxygen consumption (V̇O2peak), (b) an isometric strength test, (c) a second bicycle ergometer test consisting of time trials with maximal effort during 10-s, 1-min and 5-min trials and (d) a simulated race in the field. The laboratory parameters were scaled by body weight and subsequently compared with the mean power scaled by body weight and the race time using univariate correlations (rpower; rtime). The incremental test parameters of individual anaerobic threshold (rpower = 0.70; rtime = −0.74) and V̇O2peak (rpower = 0.85; rtime = −0.86) showed strong correlations with the mean power output during the race and the race time. This result also applies for PO of the laboratory time trials during 1 min (rpower = 0.69; rtime = −0.68) and 5 min (rpower = 0.63; rtime = −0.82). PO of the 10-s time trial (rpower = 0.20; rtime = −0.44), as well as maximal muscle strength (rpower = −0.13; rtime = −0.24), were weakly correlated. In conclusion, power outputs of the 1- and 5-min time trials showed similar correlations with race performance compared with traditional aerobic parameters. These findings underline that traditional aerobic parameters of an incremental test, as well as power output during short high intensive intervals, should be considered when analysing mountain bike performance
Authors and Affiliations
Marc Ahrend| University of Tuebingen, Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Clinic. Germany, Patrick Schneeweiss| University of Tuebingen, Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Clinic. Germany, Ulrich Theobald| University of Tuebingen, Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Clinic. Germany, Andreas M. Niess| University of Tuebingen, Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Clinic. Germany, Inga Krauss| University of Tuebingen, Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Clinic. Germany
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP2955
- DOI -
- Views 455
- Downloads 29
Social Transformatıon and Political Participation in the Syriac Community
The Turabdin region in which Mardin locates is the homeland of the Syriac community. However, the majority of Syriacs left Turkey for European countries because of their controversial interaction with the Turkish Republi...
THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF THE KDY ROOT IN THE HOLY QUR’AN AND ITS TRANSLATION INTO TURKISH
This Article examines semantic structure of the KDY roots and its usage in the Qur‟an. The KDY root, which is mentioned in sixty-three different places in the Qur‟an in various forms, has a polysemantic structure. The ro...
Entrepreneurship Tendency; A Research On Senior Grade Students In Economics And Administrative Science Faculty In One Public University
The purpose of this study is to examine students’ entrepreneurship tendency in different departments of economics and administrative science faculty in public university. Data was collected by questionnaires from 240 stu...
The African Union within the Social Constructivist Framework
The experiences, which people as social beings accumulate, diversify and transform their aims of organization in social life. As this process prolongs, the number of national and international organizations shall increas...
HUN-CHINA RELATIONS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF HE QIN POLICY AND WANG ZHAO JUN
He Qin policy, defined as peace-marriage between Huns and China, was applied for the first time by Han Dynasty when China was economically, socially and politically instable. After that, all the He Qin treaties were dema...