Key result
Ice hockey training reduces blood lactate and VE/VO2 during submaximal skating, demonstrating training-specific adaptations.
Why the study?
The specificity of metabolic and cardiorespiratory adaptations to different seasonal training programs and testing modalities in ice hockey players was unclear.
Does ice hockey training alone or combined with cycling improve metabolic and cardiorespiratory responses in college hockey players?
Population
Two groups of college hockey players
Comparison
Ice hockey training (IH) vs ice hockey plus prolonged low-intensity cycling (IH-C)
Design
Cohort study of seasonal training programs
Follow-up
One season
Authors
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May support sport-specific training emphasis in hockey; hypothesis-generating for local-central adaptation dissociation in athletes.
Does ice hockey training alone or combined with cycling improve metabolic and cardiorespiratory responses in college hockey players?
p-value: p=<0.05
Physiological adaptations to training in hockey players are specific to the type of work and ergometry used, suggesting a dissociation between local and central adaptations.
DAUB et al. (1983) studied Healthy college hockey players. Ice hockey and prolonged low-intensity cycling (IH-C) vs. Ice hockey training alone (IH) was evaluated on Metabolic and cardiorespiratory responses during maximal and submaximal ice skating and cycling (p=<0.05). Ice hockey training with or without cycling reduced blood lactate, VE/VO2, and respiratory exchange ratio during submaximal ice skating (P<0.05), demonstrating training-specific adaptations.
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