Physiological characteristics of successful mountain bikers and professional road cyclists

Lee, Hamilton; Martin, David T.; Anson, Judith; Grundy, Damian; Hahn, Allan G.

doi:10.1080/026404102321011760

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“…These data support previous suggestions that XCO-MTB is highly reliant on aerobic 215 capacities relative to body mass (6,11). Separately, while the 60 s, 240 s and 600 s efforts 216 were able to discriminate between the two groups, the shorter duration efforts (5 s, 15 s and 217 30 s) did not.…”

Section: Statistical Analyses 141supporting

confidence: 76%

“…These investigations have reported that XCO-MTB athletes possess high 37 relative o 2 max values (e.g. national level riders: 65-75 ml·kg -1 ·min -1 ; international riders: 38 75-86 ml·kg -1 ·min -1 ) (2,5,6,8,9,11,17,19). Further, elite XCO-MTB cyclists have 39 demonstrated high maximal aerobic cycling power outputs relative to body mass (6-6.5W·kg -40 well as an intermittent protocol that consisted of five Wingate tests at 50% of single Wingate 46 load with 30 s rest between each effort to compare against XCO-MTB performance.…”

Section: Introduction 23mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These changes in trail 28 conditions produce inconsistent environmental and physical influences on performance, 29 which may affect the reliability of field-based XCO-MTB tests. Therefore, the assessment of 30 XCO-MTB performance has been largely limited to controlled laboratory environments to 31 avoid such confounding influences (8,9,11). 32 33 XCO-MTB competition can be best described as an endurance cycling discipline that 34 typically lasts ~90 min (UCI Race Regulations: Part 4 Mountain Bike Races, 2016) and as 35 such, initial laboratory investigations have focused on the aerobic characteristics of XCO-36 MTB athletes.…”

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Power Profiles of Competitive and Noncompetitive Mountain Bikers

Novak

Bennett

Pluss

et al. 2019

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

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1The performance of Olympic distance cross-country mountain bikers (XCO-MTB) is affected 2 by constraints such as erosion of track surfaces and mass start congestion which can affect 3 race results. Standardised laboratory assessments quantify inter-seasonal and intra-seasonal 4 cycling potential through the assessment of multiple physiological capacities. Therefore, this 5 study examined whether the power profile assessment could discriminate between 6 competitive XCO-MTB and non-competitive mountain bikers (NC-MTB). Secondly, it aimed 7 to report normative power profile data for competitive XCO-MTB cyclists. Twenty-nine male 8 participants were recruited across groups of XCO-MTB (n=14) and NC-MTB (n=15) 9 mountain bikers. Each cyclist completed a power profile assessment that consisted of 10 increasing duration maximal efforts (6, 15, 30, 60, 240 and 600 s) that were interspersed by 11 longer rest periods (174, 225, 330, 480 and 600 s) between efforts. Normative power outputs 12 were established for XCO-MTB cyclists ranging between 13.8 ± 1.5 W·kg -1 (5 s effort) to 4.1 13 ± 0.6 W·kg -1 (600 s effort). No differences in absolute peak power or cadence were identified 14 between groups across any effort length (p>0.05). However, the XCO-MTB cyclists 15 produced greater mean power outputs relative to body mass than the NC-MTB during the 60 16 s (6.9 ± 0.8 vs 6.4 ± 0.6 W·kg -1 ; p=0.002), 240 s (4.7 ± 0.7 vs 3.8 ± 0.4 W·kg -1 ; p<0.001) and 17 600 s (4.1 ± 0.6 vs 3.4 ± 0.3 W·kg -1 ; p<0.001) efforts. The power profile assessment is a 18 useful discriminative assessment tool for XCO-MTB and highlights the importance of 19 aerobic power for XCO-MTB performance. 20

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Section: Statistical Analyses 141supporting

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Section: Introduction 23mentioning

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Section: Introduction 23mentioning

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Power Profiles of Competitive and Noncompetitive Mountain Bikers

Novak

Bennett

Pluss

et al. 2019

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

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“…Asimismo, Martínez et al, (1993) determinaron las características antropométricas de 58 ciclistas de competición y encontraron que los ciclistas pesaban 69.6 kg, y tenían una estatura de 173.2 cm, valores que, como se mencionó previamente, son semejantes a la demostrada en ciclistas élite costarricenses. En relación con los análisis realizados según el tipo de prueba, en el presente estudio se demostró que no existe diferencia significativa en las variables antropométricas medidas entre ciclistas que practican solamente ruta y aquellos que practican ruta y MTB de manera conjunta, aunque tomando en cuenta las características del MTB mencionadas por algunos autores (Impellizzeri y Marcora, 2007;Lee et al, 2002), como por ejemplo el tipo de terreno en el que se incluyen ascensos y descensos, senderos de tierra y senderos entre la montaña y el campo, así como el mayor peso de la bicicleta (Impellizzeri y Marcora, 2007), se consideró que podrían existir diferencias bien marcadas en el perfil antropométrico de los ciclistas que realizaban únicamente ruta respecto a los ciclistas que realizaban ruta en combinación con MTB.…”

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Determinación De Las Características Antropométricas Y Consumo Máximo De Oxígeno Del Ciclista Élite Costarricense Según Especialidad Y Tipo De Prueba

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Sánchez-Ureña³

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“…In mountain bike races, body mass seems to be of importance (5,6), since mountain bikers are lighter and leaner compared to road cyclists (6). In mountain-bikers in a cross-country race, total rider mass correlates strongly to average course speed (7) and according to Impellizzeri et al (8), body mass is important for mountain bike performances.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%