Physiological Responder Profiles and Fatigue Dynamics in Prolonged Cycling

Adrian Odriozola, Cristina Tirnauca, Francesc Corbi, Adriana González, Jesús Álvarez-Herms, Silvio Lorenzetti · 2025

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Adrian Odriozola and co-authors profile how trained cyclists' bodies respond to a hard twenty-minute effort. Their 2025 study compares professional riders with competitive amateurs. The aim was to find steady response types that could guide personal monitoring.

Riders took a threshold power test plus jump, blood, and heart measures before, just after, and a day after the effort. Professionals produced far higher power for their weight and higher waste product levels after the test. Their heart and metabolic recovery also ran faster over the next day. Muscle damage marks a day later were higher in professionals, fitting their harder effort. The profiles suggest coaches should read recovery through several signals at once, not power alone.

Catalog record

CREATORAdrian Odriozola, Cristina Tirnauca, Francesc Corbi, Adriana González, Jesús Álvarez-Herms, Silvio Lorenzetti
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE57 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12733898

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