Heart-Rate Recommendations: Transfer Between Running and Cycling Exercise?

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Why the study?

Does heart rate at the individual anaerobic threshold correlate between running and cycling exercises?

Structured PICO

Does heart rate at the individual anaerobic threshold correlate between running and cycling exercises?

Population

371 subjects (304 male, 67 female)

Intervention

Incremental exercise test on a treadmill (starting speed 6 or 8 km/h, increments 2 km/h every 3 min)

Comparator

Incremental exercise test on a bicycle ergometer (start at 50 Watt, increments 25 or 50 Watt every 3 min)

Outcome

Correlation of heart rate at individual anaerobic threshold (IAT) and at 4 mmol/L blood lactate between cycling and runningsurrogate

Heart rate recommendations based on anaerobic threshold cannot be transferred between running and cycling, necessitating sports-specific testing.

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Heart rate thresholds at IAT may not transfer between running and cycling; leaves open need for modality-specific testing.

Röecker et al. (2003) studied this question.

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