Why the study?
Does endurance training improve skeletal muscle hemodynamics and oxygen extraction during exercise in healthy men?
Population
14 healthy men (7 endurance-trained and 7 untrained)
Comparison
Endurance-trained status vs Untrained status
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Endurance training was associated with higher muscle oxygen extraction; hypothesis-generating for causal effects on exercise efficiency.
Does endurance training improve skeletal muscle hemodynamics and oxygen extraction during exercise in healthy men?
Endurance training is associated with higher oxygen extraction, longer blood transit time, and more homogeneous perfusion in exercising skeletal muscle, which may improve exercise efficiency.
Kalliokoski et al. (2001) studied this question.