Moderate- and heavy-intensity priming exercise can improve severe-intensity cycling performance by approximately 2-3%.
These data indicate that priming exercise performed in the moderate- and heavy-intensity domains can improve severe-intensity cycling performance by ~2-3%, the latter condition doing so despite a mild lactacidosis being present at exercise onset.
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