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Does completing a Grand Tour reduce maximal and submaximal endurance performance capacity in professional cyclists?
Does completing a Grand Tour reduce maximal and submaximal endurance performance capacity in professional cyclists?
Completing a Grand Tour significantly decreases endurance performance capacity, suggesting that high-intensity exercise demands in cyclists may be underestimated if based on pre-tour reference values.
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Coaches should update performance benchmarks post-Grand Tour; this RCT confirms significant decrements in maximal and submaximal endurance capacity.
These data indicate that completing a Grand Tour may result in a significant decrement in maximal and submaximal endurance performance capacity. This may modify reference values used to analyze exercise demands. As a consequence, the high-intensity exercise performed by cyclists may be underestimated.
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Marroyo et al. (2017) studied this question.
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