Why the study?
Does endurance training improve peak oxygen uptake primarily through haematological or skeletal muscle adaptations in untrained healthy males?
Population
16 untrained healthy male volunteers (age = 25 ± 4 years, V̇(O2peak) = 3.5 ± 0.5 l min(-1))
Comparison
Supervised endurance training, followed by… vs Pre-training baseline (within-subject comparison)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
6 weeks
Authors
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Haematological factors may predominate in short-term VO2peak gains; hypothesis-generating for blood volume interventions in untrained adults.
Does endurance training improve peak oxygen uptake primarily through haematological or skeletal muscle adaptations in untrained healthy males?
The improvement in peak oxygen uptake following 6 weeks of endurance training in untrained healthy young men is primarily driven by increases in peak cardiac output and blood oxygen-carrying capacity rather than skeletal muscle adaptations.
Montero et al. (2015) studied this question.
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