What question did this study set out to answer?

To assess ventilatory threshold as a percentage of maximal oxygen uptake across diverse athletic disciplines and determine the effects of event duration, age, sex, and testing modality.

August 1, 1987International Journal of Sports Medicine

Ventilatory Threshold in Various Groups of Highly Trained Athletes

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Population

Highly trained athletes from various sports including marathon, long-distance, middle-distance running…

Comparison

Exercise testing using specific and nonspecific… vs Comparison between specific vs nonspecific…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

VBVáclav BuncCharles University JHJan HellerUniversity of Iowa JLJiří LesoCharles University

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Implication

VT %VO2max norms should not yet guide cross-sport training; leaves open validation in prospective or less-trained cohorts.

Key Points

To assess ventilatory threshold as a percentage of maximal oxygen uptake across diverse athletic disciplines and determine the effects of event duration, age, sex, and testing modality.
Assessed ventilatory threshold (VT) in highly trained junior and adult male and female athletes across multiple sports, including runners, canoeists, rowers, pentathletes, and team sport players.
Conducted physiological testing using sport-specific and nonspecific modalities, including treadmills, bicycle ergometers, paddling ergometers, and rowing ergometers.
Ventilatory threshold relative to maximal oxygen uptake (%VO2max) was highest in longer-duration sports, reaching 86.7% in male marathon runners.
Load specificity significantly altered outcomes: young female canoeists and rowers achieved 84.8% and 85.0% VO2max on specific ergometers versus 74.2% and 74.6% on bicycle ergometers, respectively.
No significant differences in %VO2max at VT were observed between equally trained young and adult athletes (85.2% vs. 85.3% in long-distance runners) or between males and females (85.2% vs. 84.9% in long-distance runners).

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Population

Highly trained athletes from various sports including marathon, long-distance, middle-distance running, modern pentathlon, canoeing, football, table tennis, water slalom, rowing, and ice hockey, encompassing different age groups and both sexes.

Intervention

Exercise testing using specific and nonspecific loading (treadmill, bicycle ergometer, paddling ergometer, rowing ergometer)

Comparator

Comparison between specific vs nonspecific loading, different sports, age groups, and sexes

Outcome

Ventilatory threshold (VT) expressed as a percentage of maximal oxygen uptake (%V̇O2max)surrogate

Ventilatory threshold as a percentage of V̇O2max in highly trained athletes is highly dependent on the specificity of the exercise load and the duration of their typical competition, rather than age or sex.

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Bunc et al. (1987) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7c102f4fcef545fadf9df5 https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1025669

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Ventilatory Threshold in Various Groups of Highly Trained Athletes

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