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Al Haddad (2012): Effect of daily cold water immersion on heart rate variability and subjective ratings of well-being in highly trained swimmers

Amann (2006): Predictive validity of ventilatory and lactate thresholds for cycling time trial performance

Bassett (1999): Comparing cycling world hour records, 1967-1996: modeling with empirical data

Battista (2008): Physiologic responses during indoor cycling

Bertucci (2007): Laboratory versus outdoor cycling conditions: differences in pedaling biomechanics

Billat (1999): Time in human endurance models. From empirical models to physiological models

Bonacci (2009): Neuromuscular adaptations to training, injury and passive interventions: implications for running economy

Bonetti (2009): Sea-level exercise performance following adaptation to hypoxia: a meta-analysis

Carey (2009): Transferability of running and cycling training zones in triathletes: implications for steady-state exercise

Chapman (2013): The individual response to training and competition at altitude

Chicharro (1999): Physiological parameters determined at OBLA vs. a fixed heart rate of 175 beats x min-1 in an incremental test performed by amateur and professional cyclists

Chicharro (2001): Thyroid hormone levels during a 3-week professional road cycling competition

Chicharro (2001): Plasma oxytocin during intense exercise in professional cyclists

Christian (2014): The role of sense of effort on self-selected cycling power output

Clark (2007): The effect of acute simulated moderate altitude on power, performance and pacing strategies i well-trained cyclists

da Cunha (2011): Methodological and practical application issues in exercise prescription using the heart rate reserve and oxygen uptake reserve methods

Demarle (2003): Whichever the initial training status, any increase in velocity at lactate threshold appears as a major factor in improved time to exhaustion at the same severe velocity after training

Dumke (2006): Heart rate at lactate threshold and cycling time trials

Earnest (2009): Time trial exertion traits of cycling's Grand Tours

Esteve-Lanao (2008): How do humans control physiological strain during strenuous endurance exercise?

Eston (2012): Use of ratings of perceived exertion in sports

Garvican LA et al (2010): The contribution of haemoglobin mass to increases in cycling performance induced by simulated LHTL

Gore (2007): Nonhematological mechanisms of improved sea-level performance after hypoxic exposure

Green (2005): RPE-lactate dissociation during extended cycling

Green (2007): Influence of aerobic fitness on ratings of perceived exertion during graded and extended duration cycling

Hagen (2013): The effect of music on 10-km cycle time-trial performance

Hahn (2001): The effect of altitude on cycling performance: a challenge to traditional concepts

Hill (1987): Effect of training on the rating of perceived exertion at the ventilatory threshold

Hue (2010): Maximal oxygen uptake, ventilatory thresholds and mechanical power during cycling in tropical climate in Guadeloupean elite cyclists

Hulleman (2007): The effect of extrinsic motivation on cycle time trial performance

Joseph (2008): Perception of fatigue during simulated competition

Laursen (2002): The scientific basis for high-intensity interval training: optimising training programmes and maximising performance in highly trained endurance athletes

Laursen (2003): Physiological responses to repeated bouts of high-intensity ultraendurance cycling--a field study case report

Lounana (2007): Relationship between %HRmax, %HR reserve, %VO2max, and %VO2 reserve in elite cyclists

Lucia (1999): Heart rate response to professional road cycling: the Tour de France

Lucia (2000): Heart rate and performance parameters in elite cyclists: a longitudinal study

Lucia (2000): The slow component of VO2 in professional cyclists

Lucia (2001): Effects of endurance training on the breathing pattern of professional cyclists

Lucia (2001): Hormone levels of world class cyclists during the Tour of Spain stage race

Lucia (2001): Thyroid hormones may influence the slow component of VO(2) in professional cyclists

Lucia (2002): Inverse relationship between VO2max and economy/efficiency in world-class cyclists

Lucia (2002): Preferred pedaling cadence in professional cycling

Lucia (2002): Kinetics of VO2 in professional cyclists

Lucia (2002): The response of sexual and stress hormones of male pro-cyclists during continuous intense competition

Lucia (2003): Tour de France: a physiological review

Lucia (2003): Giro, Tour and Vuelta in the same season

Lucia (2003): Tour de France versus Vuelta a España: which is harder?

Lucia (2003): Which laboratory variable is related with the time trial performance time in the Tour de France?

Lucia (2004): Relation between physical exertion and heart rate variability characteristics in professional cyclistsduring the Tour of Spain

Lucia (2004): In professional road cyclists, low pedaling cadence is less efficient

Mann (2013): Methods of prescribing relative exercise intensity: physiological and practical considerations

Millet (2010): Combining hypoxic methods for peak performance

Minganti (2011): The use of session RPE for interval training in master endurance athletes: should rest be included?

Morton (1996): The relationship between power output and endurance: a brief review

Morton (2006): The critical power and related whole-body bioenergetic models

Pérez-Landaluce (2002): Physiological differences and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) in professional, amateur and young cyclists

Rodriguez-Marroyo (2012): Comparison of heart rate and session rating of perceived exertion methods of defining exercise load in cyclists

Rodriguez-Marroyo (2013): Effect of cycling competition type on effort based on heart rate and session rating of perceived exertion

Rusko (2004): Altitude and endurance training

Santalla (2001): Caffeine ingestion attenuates the VO(2) slow component during intense exercise

Santalla (2003): Sodium bicarbonate ingestion does not alter the slow component of oxygen uptake kinetics in professional cyclists

Santalla (2012): The Tour de France: an updated physiological review

Saunders (2009): Endurance training at altitude

Takaishi (1998): Neuromuscular, metabolic, and kinetic adaptations for skilled pedaling performance in cyclists

Tanaka (1994): Effects of cross-training. Transfer of training effects on VO2max between cycling, running and swimming

Tucker (2009): The anticipatory regulation of performance: the physiological basis for pacing strategies and the development of a perception-based model for exercise performance

Vogt (2010): Is hypoxia training good for muscles and exercise performance?

Wilber (2001): Current trends in altitude training

Wilber (2007): Application of altitude/hypoxic training by elite athletes

Wilber (2007): Effect of hypoxic "dose" on physiological responses and sea-level performance

Wilber (2007): Introduction to altitude/hypoxic training symposium

Woltmann (2014): Evidence that the talk test can be used to regulate exercise intensity

Woolford (1999): Effect of pedal cadence on the accumulated oxygen deficit, maximal aerobic power and blood lactate transition thresholds of high-performance junior endurance cyclists

Zavorski (2000): Evidence and possible mechanisms of altered maximum heart rate with endurance training and tapering

Allen & Coggan (2010): Training and racing with a power meter

Atkinson (2000): Pacing strategies during a cycling time trial with simulated headwinds and tailwinds

Atkinson (2007): Variable versus constant power strategies during cycling time-trials: prediction of time savings using an up-to-date mathematical model

Atkinson (2007): Distribution of power output during cycling: impact and mechanisms

Atkinson (2007): Acceptability of power variation during a simulated hilly time trial

Balmer (2000): The validity of power output recorded during exercise performance tests using a Kingcycle air-braked cycle ergometer when compared with an SRM powermeter

Beedie (2013): No differences between 24h, 3h and 30min recovery in the estimation of critical power and W’ in cycling

Bentley (2001): Peak power output, the lactate threshold, and time trial performance in cyclists

Bosquet (2002): Methods to determine aerobic endurance

Broxterman (2014): Influence of pedal cadence on the respiratory compensation point and its relation to critical power

Buttelli (1996): The relationship between maximal power and maximal torque-velocity using an electronic ergometer

Buttelli (1996): Effect of fatigue on maximal velocity and maximal torque during short exhausting cycling

Buttelli (1997): Effects of aerobic exercise on the torque-velocity relationship in cycling

Buttelli (1999): Recovery of the torque-velocity relationship after short exhausting cycling exercise

Carpes (2007): Bilateral pedaling asymmetry during a simulated 40-km cycling time-trial

Chidnok (2012): Exercise tolerance in intermittent cycling: application of the critical power concept

Chidnok (2013): Effects of pacing strategy on work done above critical power during high-intensity exercise

Chidnok (2013): Muscle metabolic determinants of exercise tolerance following exhaustion: relationship to the "critical power"

Debraux (2011): Aerodynamic drag in cycling: methods of assessment

Dekerle (2003): Maximal lactate steady state, respiratory compensation threshold and critical power

Driss (2013): The measurement of maximal (anaerobic) power output on a cycle ergometer: a critical review

Ferguson (2010): Effect of recovery duration from prior exhaustive exercise on the parameters of the power-duration relationship

Fontana (2009): Time to exhaustion at maximal lactate steady state is similar for cycling and running in moderately trained subjects

Fukuba (2003): The curvature constant parameter of the power-duration curve for varied-power exercise

Gamellin (2006): Prediction of one-hour running performance using constant duration tests

García-Lópes (2008): Reference values and improvement of aerodynamic drag in professional cyclists

García-Lópes (2014): The use of velodrome tests to evaluate aerodynamic drag in professional cyclists

Gardner (2004): Accuracy of SRM and power tap power monitoring systems for bicycling

Gardner (2007): Maximal torque- and power-pedaling rate relationships for elite sprint cyclists in laboratory and field tests

Gardner (2009): Velocity-specific fatigue: quantifying fatigue during variable velocity cycling

Gore C (2010): Physiological tests for elite athletes

Grossl (2012): Time to exhaustion at intermittent maximal lactate steady state is longer than continuous cycling exercise

Haakonssen (2013): Energy Expenditure of Constant- and Variable-Intensity Cycling: Power Meter Estimates

Hopkins (2001): Reliability of power in physical performance tests

Hurst H et al (2015): Agreement Between the Stages Cycling and SRM Powermeter Systems during Field-Based Off-Road Climbing

Jobson (2009): The analysis and utilization of cycling training data

Jones (2010): Changes in the force–velocity relationship of fatigued muscle: implications for power production and possible causes

Jones (2010): Critical power: implications for determination of V˙O2max and exercise tolerance

Keir (2015): Exercise Intensity Thresholds: Identifying the Boundaries of Sustainable Performance

Martin (1997): Inertial-load method determines maximal cycling power in a single exercise bout

McGregor (2012): Response to ”The record power profile to assess performance in elite cyclists

Miura (2009): The effect of prior heavy exercise on the parameters of the power-duration curve for cycle ergometry

Monod & Scherrer (1965): The work capacity of a synergic muscular group

Moritani (1981): Critical power as a measure of physical work capacity and anaerobic threshold

Morton (1996): The relationship between power output and endurance: a brief review

Morton (2006): The critical power and related whole-body bioenergetic models

Noordhof (2013): Determining anaerobic capacity in sporting activities

Paton (2001): Tests of cycling performance

Paton (2006): Ergometer error and biological variation in power output in a performance test with three cycle ergometers

Pinot (2011): The record power profile to assess performance in elite cyclists

Pringle (2002): Maximal lactate steady state, critical power and EMG during cycling

Quod (2010): The power profile predicts road cycling MMP

Rannama (2011): Does limited gear ratio driven higher training cadence in junior cycling reflect in maximum effort sprint?

Seck (1995): Maximal power and torque-velocity relationship on a cycle ergometer during the acceleration phase of a single all-out exercise

Skiba (2008): Analysis of Power Output and Training Stress in Cyclists: The Development of the BikeScoreTM Algorithm

Skiba (2012): Modeling the expenditure and reconstitution of work capacity above critical power

Skiba (2014): Effect of work and recovery durations on W' reconstitution during intermittent exercise

Skiba (2014): Validation of a novel intermittent w' model for cycling using field data

Skiba (2015): Intramuscular determinants of the ability to recover work capacity above critical power

Vandewalle (1997): Work-exhaustion time relationships and the critical power concept. A critical review

Vanhatalo (2011): Application of critical power in sport

www.trainingpeaks.com (The new power duration model in WKO+ part 1–4)

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Abt (2007): Relationship between cycling mechanics and core stability

Argus (2013): The Effects of 4 Different Recovery Strategies on Repeat Sprint-Cycling Performance

Baar (2006): To perform your best: work hard not long

Baar (2006): Training for endurance and strength: lessons from cell signaling

Baar (2014): Using molecular biology to maximize concurrent training

Baar (2014): Nutrition and the adaptation to endurance training

Babault N et al (2011): Does electrical stimulation enhance post-exercise performance recovery?

Barnett (2006): Using recovery modalities between training sessions in elite athletes: does it help?

Beattie (2014): The effect of strength training on performance in endurance athletes

Bishop (2008): Recovery from training: a brief review: brief review

Billat (1995): Times to exhaustion at 90, 100 and 105% of velocity at VO2 max (maximal aerobic speed) and critical speed in elite long-distance runners

Billat (2008): Time to exhaustion at VO2max and lactate steady state velocity in sub elite long-distance runners.

Billat (2012): The sustainability of VO(2max): effect of decreasing the workload.

Bishop D, Girard O & Villanueva A (2011): Repeated-sprint ability - part II: recommendations for training

Bliss (2005): Core stability: the centerpiece of any training program

Borghuis (2008): The importance of sensory-motor control in providing core stability: implications for measurement and training

Bressel E, Nash D & Dolny D (2010): Association between attributes of a cyclist and bicycle seat pressure

Buchheit (2009): Muscle deoxygenation during repeated sprint running: Effect of active vs. passive recovery

Buchheit (2009): Effect of cold water immersion on postexercise parasympathetic reactivation

Buchheit (2012): Performance and physiological responses during a sprint interval training session: relationships with muscle oxygenation and pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics

Burgomaster (2008): Similar metabolic adaptations during exercise after low volume sprint interval and traditional endurance training in humans

Burke (2010): Fueling strategies to optimize performance: training high or training low?

Campos (2002): Muscular adaptations in response to three different resistance-training regimens: specificity of repetition maximum training zones

Caputo (2004): Effects of aerobic endurance training status and specificity on oxygen uptake kinetics during maximal exercise

Caputo (2008): The highest intensity and the shortest duration permitting attainment of maximal oxygen uptake during cycling: effects of different methods and aerobic fitness level

Chidnok (2012): Exercise tolerance in intermittent cycling: application of the critical power concept

Cooke (2013): The effects of individual and team competitions on performance, emotions, and effort

Cormie (2011): Developing maximal neuromuscular power: Part 1--biological basis of maximal power production

Cormie (2011): Developing maximal neuromuscular power: part 2 - training considerations for improving maximal power production

Creer (2004): Neural, metabolic, and performance adaptations to four weeks of high intensity sprint-interval training in trained cyclists

Cronin (2005): Challenges in understanding the influence of maximal power training on improving athletic performance

de Pauw (2011): Effect of five different recovery methods on repeated cycle performance

de Pauw (2014): Effect of recovery interventions on cycling performance and pacing strategy in the heat

de Salles (2009): Rest interval between sets in strength training

Dinn (2007): A comparison of ballistic-movement and ballistic-intent training on muscle strength and activation

Dorel (2005): Torque and power-velocity relationships in cycling: relevance to track sprint performance in world-class cyclists

Draper (2003): The VO2 response to exhaustive square wave exercise: influence of exercise intensity and mode

Driss T & Vandewalle H (2013): The Measurement of Maximal (Anaerobic) Power Output on a Cycle Ergometer: A Critical Review

Emberts (2013): Exercise Intensity and Energy Expenditure of a Tabata Workout

Esfarjani (1007): Manipulating high-intensity interval training: effects on VO2max, the lactate threshold and 3000 m running performance in moderately trained males

Faude (2009): Recovery training in cyclists: ergometric, hormonal and psychometric findings

Fitts (1996): Muscle mechanics: adaptations with exercise-training

Freese (2013): Physiological responses to an acute bout of sprint interval cycling

Fröhlich (2010): Outcome effects of single-set versus multiple-set training--an advanced replication study

Gliemann (2014): 10-20-30 training increases performance and lowers blood pressure and VEGF in runners

Gibala (2008): Metabolic adaptations to short-term high-intensity interval training: a little pain for a lot of gain?

Gibala (2009): Molecular responses to high-intensity interval exercise

Gist (2014): Sprint interval training effects on aerobic capacity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Godin J, Cozzone PJ & Bendahan D (2011): Is high-frequency neuromuscular electrical stimulation a suitable tool for muscle performance improvement in both healthy humans and athletes?

Greimon G (2005): Is stretching for sports performance still useful? A review of the literature

Gunnarsson (2013): Effect of intensified training on muscle ion kinetics, fatigue development, and repeated short-term performance in endurance-trained cyclists

HajGhanbari (2013): Effects of respiratory muscle training on performance in athletes: a systematic review with meta-analyses

Hansen (2012): Cyclists' improvement of pedaling efficacy and performance after heavy strength training

Hawley (2002): Adaptations of skeletal muscle to prolonged, intense endurance training

Hawley (2013): Nutritional strategies to modulate the adaptive response to endurance training

Hawley (2014): Ramping up the signal: promoting endurance training adaptation in skeletal muscle by nutritional manipulation

Hawley (2014): MANIPULATING CARBOHYDRATE AVAILABILITY TO PROMOTE TRAINING ADAPTATION

Hibbs (2008): Optimizing performance by improving core stability and core strength

Hill (2003): Oxygen uptake kinetics during severe intensity running and cycling

Hodgson (2005): Post-activation potentiation: underlying physiology and implications for motor performance

Hoff (2002): Maximal strength training improves aerobic endurance performance

Hoier (2013): Intense intermittent exercise provides weak stimulus for vascular endothelial growth factor secretion and capillary growth in skeletal muscle

Hrysomallis (2011): Balance ability and athletic performance

Iaia (2010): Speed endurance training is a powerful stimulus for physiological adaptations and performance improvements of athletes

Iaia (2011): Relationship between performance at different exercise intensities and skeletal muscle characteristics

Ingraham SJ (2003): The role of flexibility in injury prevention and athletic performance: have we stretched the truth?

Ivy (1998): Glycogen resynthesis after exercise: effect of carbohydrate intake

Jackson (2007): High resistance/low repetition vs. low resistance/high repetition training: effects on performance of trained cyclists

Jensen (2004): Effect of high intensity training on capillarization and presence of angiogenic factors in human skeletal muscle

Jeukendrup (2007): Idrottsnutrition för bättre prestation

Kawamori (2004): The optimal training load for the development of muscular power

Koninckx (2010): Effect of isokinetic cycling versus weight training on maximal power output and endurance performance in cycling

Lake DA (1992): Neuromuscular electrical stimulation. An overview and its application in the treatment of sports injuries

Laursen (2002): Interval training program optimization in highly trained endurance cyclists

Laursen (2003): Physiological responses to repeated bouts of high-intensity ultraendurance cycling--a field study case report

Laursen (2004): Temporal aspects of the VO2 response at the power output associated with VO2peak in well trained cyclists--implications for interval training prescription

Laursen (2005): Influence of high-intensity interval training on adaptations in well-trained cyclists

Lantier (2014): AMPK controls exercise endurance, mitochondrial oxidative capacity, and skeletal muscle integrity

Little (2010): A practical model of low-volume high-intensity interval training induces mitochondrial biogenesis in human skeletal muscle: potential mechanisms

Maddigan (2012): A comparison of assisted and unassisted proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation techniques and static stretching

McConnell (2005): The effect of inspiratory muscle training upon maximum lactate steady-state and blood lactate concentration

McHugh MP & Cosgrave CH (2010): To stretch or not to stretch: the role of stretching in injury prevention and performance

McPhee (2009): The training stimulus experienced by the leg muscles during cycling in humans

McQuillan (2007): The effect of high intensity resisted cycling with and without explosive resistance training on performance in competitive cyclists

Meyer (2004): Different effects of two regeneration regimens on immunological parameters in cyclists

Midgley (2006): Time at or near VO2max during continuous and intermittent running. A review with special reference to considerations for the optimisation of training protocols to elicit the longest time at or near VO2max

Midgley (2006): Is there an optimal training intensity for enhancing the maximal oxygen uptake of distance runners?: empirical research findings, current opinions, physiological rationale and practical recommendations

Millet (2002): Modelling the transfers of training effects on performance in elite triathletes

Millet (2009): Physiological differences between cycling and running: lessons from triathletes

Minetti (2011): Bioenergetics and biomechanics of cycling: the role of 'internal work'

Paton (2005): Combining explosive and high-resistance training improves performance in competitive cyclists

Paton (2009): Effects of low- vs. high-cadence interval training on cycling performance

Philip (2012): More than a store: regulatory roles for glycogen in skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise

Psilander (2014): THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT EXERCISE REGIMENS ON MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS AND PERFORMANCE

Reed (2012): The effects of isolated and integrated 'core stability' training on athletic performance measures: a systematic review

Robinson (2011): Effects of high intensity training by heart rate or power in recreational cyclists

Rønnestad BR & Mujika I (2014): Optimizing strength training for running and cycling endurance performance: A review

Rønnestad BR et al (2015): Strength training improves performance and pedaling characteristics in elite cyclists

Sandbakk (2013): Effects of intensity and duration in aerobic high-intensity interval training in highly trained junior cross-country skiers

Schoenfeld (2015): Effects of Low- Versus High-Load Resistance Training on Muscle Strength and Hypertrophy in Well-Trained Men

Scribbans (2014): Fibre-specific responses to endurance and low volume high intensity interval training: striking similarities in acute and chronic adaptation

Seiler (2013): Adaptations to aerobic interval training: interactive effects of exercise intensity and total work duration

Septo (1999): Effects of different interval-training programs on cycling time-trial performance

Sharman (2006): Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching : mechanisms and clinical implications

Simão (2012): Exercise order in resistance training

Skelly (2014): High-intensity interval exercise induces 24-h energy expenditure similar to traditional endurance exercise despite reduced time commitment

Sloth (2013): Effects of sprint interval training on VO2max and aerobic exercise performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Soares (1992): Effects of training on muscle capillary pattern: intermittent vs continuous exercise

Spanoudaki (2014): Oxygen consumption and heart rate responses during and after constant load and alternating intensity exercise at 105% of lactate threshold

Spineti (2010): Influence of exercise order on maximum strength and muscle volume in nonlinear periodized resistance training

Stanley (2013): Consecutive days of cold water immersion: effects on cycling performance and heart rate variability

Stanley (2014): Moderate recovery unnecessary to sustain high stroke volume during interval training

Støren (2012): Improved VO2max and time trial performance with more high aerobic intensity interval training and reduced training volume: a case study on an elite national cyclist

Sunde A et al (2010): Maximal strength training improves cycling economy in competitive cyclists

Sawyer (2014): Strength training increases endurance time to exhaustion during high-intensity exercise despite no change in critical power

Tanaka (1994): Effects of cross-training. Transfer of training effects on VO2max between cycling, running and swimming

Thomas (2012): Metabolic and respiratory adaptations during intense exercise following long-sprint training of short duration

Vaz (2014): Effects of different training amplitudes on heart rate and heart rate variability in young rowers

Vikmoen O et al (2015): Strength training improves cycling performance, fractional utilization of VO2max and cycling economy in female cyclists

Weerapong (2005): The mechanisms of massage and effects on performance, muscle recovery and injury prevention.

Weston (2014): Effects of low-volume high-intensity interval training (HIT) on fitness in adults: a meta-analysis of controlled and non-controlled trials

Williams (2014): Competitor presence reduces internal attentional focus and improves 16.1km cycling time trial performance

Witvrouw E et al (2004): Stretching and injury prevention: an obscure relationship

Yeo (2010): Acute signalling responses to intense endurance training commenced with low or normal muscle glycogen

Abbiss (2013): The distribution of pace adopted by cyclists during a cross-country mountain bike World Championships

Ball (2010): Mountain biking - the manual

Bratlett (2007): Is movement variability important for sports biomechanists?

Beste (2013): Learning without training

Broker (1999): Racing cyclist power requirements in the 4000-m individual and team pursuits

Burns (2012): Effects of Short-Term Training With Uncoupled Cranks in Trained Cyclists

Dietrich (2004): Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the experience of flow

Handford (1997): Skill acquisition in sport: some applications of an evolving practice ecology

Henriques (2012): Visuomotor adaptation and proprioceptive recalibration

Hodges (2002): Modelling coaching practice: the role of instruction and demonstration

Hrysomallis (2011): Balance ability and athletic performance

Issurin (2013): Training transfer: scientific background and insights for practical application

Katić (2010): The impact of basic motor abilities on the specific motoricity performance in elite karateka

Laguna (2008): Task complexity and sources of task-related information during the observational learning process

Luttrell (2003): Effects of short-term training using powercranks on cardiovascular fitness and cycling efficiency

McCormack & Lopes (2005): Mastering mountain bike skills

Menaspà (2013): Performance analysis of a world-class sprinter during cycling grand tours

Milton (2004): On the road to automatic: dynamic aspects in the development of expertise

Morton (2009): Isoperformance curves: an application in team selection

Neptune (2000): Adaptation of muscle coordination to altered task mechanics during steady-state cycling

Nielsen (2008): The Olympic brain. Does corticospinal plasticity play a role in acquisition of skills required for high-performance sports?

Piek (2008): The role of early fine and gross motor development on later motor and cognitive ability

Prehn (2004): Racing tactics for cyclists

Shea (2005): Schema theory: a critical appraisal and reevaluation

Schumacher (2002): The 4000-m team pursuit cycling world record: theoretical and practical aspects

Smith & Horner (2013): Reading the race

Taylor (2014): Explicit and implicit contributions to learning in a sensorimotor adaptation task

Todorov (2004): Optimality principles in sensorimotor control

Trninic (2009): Development management model of elite athletes in team sports games

Vogt (2007): From visuo-motor interactions to imitation learning: behavioural and brain imaging studies

Wei (2010): Sport expert's motor imagery: functional imaging of professional motor skills and simple motor skills

Williams (2009): Cycling efficiency and performance following short-term training using uncoupled cranks

Williams (2009): Promoting a skills-based agenda in Olympic sports: the role of skill-acquisition specialists

Zemková (2014): Sport-specific balance

Abbiss (2008): Describing and understanding pacing strategies during athletic competition

Abbiss (2013): The distribution of pace adopted by cyclists during a cross-country mountain bike World Championships

Aisbett (2003): The influence of pacing during 6-minute supra-maximal cycle ergometer performance

Aisbett (2009): Effects of starting strategy on 5-min cycling time-trial performance

Aisbett (2009): Influence of all-out and fast start on 5-min cycling time trial performance

Albertus (2005): Effect of Distance Feedback on Pacing Strategy and Perceived Exertion during Cycling

Atkinson (2000): Pacing strategies during a cycling time trial with simulated headwinds and tailwinds

Atkinson (2007): Acceptability of power variation during a simulated hilly time trial

Atkinson (2007): Variable versus constant power strategies during cycling time-trials: prediction of time savings using an up-to-date mathematical model

Baron (2011): The role of emotions on pacing strategies and performance in middle and long duration sport events

Bassett (1999): Comparing cycling world hour records, 1967-1996: modeling with empirical data

Bellardini (2006): Inverkan av olika farthållningsstrategier på prestationsförmåga vid kortvarigt maximalt fysiskt arbete

Blachfield (2014): Talking yourself out of exhaustion: the effects of self-talk on endurance performance

Boswell (2012): Power variation strategies for cycling time trials: a differential equation model

Capelli (1998): Energetics of best performances in track cycling

Chaffin (2008): Pacing pattern in a 30-minute maximal cycling test

Chidnok (2013): Effects of pacing strategy on work done above critical power during high-intensity exercise

Cohen (2013): Breaking away: effects of nonuniform pacing on power output and growth of rating of perceived exertion

Cooke (2013): The effects of individual and team competitions on performance, emotions, and effort

Corbett (2009): An analysis of the pacing strategies adopted by elite athletes during track cycling

Corbett (2009): Effect of task familiarisation on distribution of energy during a 2000 m cycling time trial

Correira-Oliveira (2014): Prior low- or high-intensity exercise alters pacing strategy, energy system contribution and performance during a 4-km cycling time trial

de Jong (2015): Pacing Strategy in Short Cycling Time Trials

Fintelman (2014): Optimal cycling time trial position models: aerodynamics versus power output and metabolic energy

Fintelman (2015): The effect of time trial cycling position on physiological and aerodynamic variables

Foster (2009): Pattern of developing the performance template

Ham DJ & Knez WL (2009):An evaluation of 30-km cycling time trial (TT30) pacing strategy through time-to-exhaustion at average TT30 pace

Hettinga (2007): Biodynamics. Effect of pacing strategy on energy expenditure during a 1500-m cycling time trial

Hettinga (2012): Relative importance of pacing strategy and mean power output in 1500-m self-paced cycling

Jones (2013): Physiological and psychological effects of deception on pacing strategy and performance: a review

Jones (2015): Distance-dependent Association of Affect with Pacing Strategy in Cycling Time Trials

Krabbé (1978): The rider

Lennartsson (2014): Game intelligence in team sports

Lima-Silva (2013): Prior exercise reduces fast-start duration and end-spurt magnitude during cycling time-trial

MacIntyre (2014): Metacognition and action: a new pathway to understanding social and cognitive aspects of expertise in sport

Martin (2012): Even between-lap pacing despite high within-lap variation during mountain biking

Mauger (2010): Influence of exercise variation on the retention of a pacing strategy

Menaspà (2015): Analysis of Road Sprint Cycling Performance

Micklewright (2010): Previous experience influences pacing during 20 km time trial cycling

Olds (1998): The mathematics of breaking away and chasing in cycling

Olds (2001): Modelling human locomotion: applications to cycling

Palmer (2009): Effects of prior heavy exercise on energy supply and 4000-m cycling performance

Prehn (2004): Racing tactics for cyclists

Rauch (2005): A signalling role for muscle glycogen in the regulation of pace during prolonged exercise

Roelands B et al (2013): Neurophysiological determinants of theoretical concepts and mechanisms involved in pacing

Skorski (2015): Effects of Training-Induced Fatigue on Pacing Patterns in 40-km Cycling Time Trials

Smirmaul (2012): Sense of effort and other unpleasant sensations during exercise: clarifying concepts and mechanisms

Smith (2013): Reading the race

Smits (2014): Pacing and decision making in sport and exercise: the roles of perception and action in the regulation of exercise intensity

St Clair Gibson (2006): The role of information processing between the brain and peripheral physiological systems in pacing and perception of effort

Swart (2009): Exercising with reserve: exercise regulation by perceived exertion in relation to duration of exercise and knowledge of endpoint

Swart (2012): Perceptual cues in the regulation of exercise performance - physical sensations of exercise and awareness of effort interact as separate cues

Thomas (2012): Reproducibility of pacing strategy during simulated 20-km cycling time trials in well-trained cyclists

Thomas (2012): The effect of self- even- and variable-pacing strategies on the physiological and perceptual response to cycling

Thomas (2013): The effect of an even-pacing strategy on exercise tolerance in well-trained cyclists

Tucker (2006): An analysis of pacing strategies during men's world-record performances in track athletics

Tucker (2009): The anticipatory regulation of performance: the physiological basis for pacing strategies and the development of a perception-based model for exercise performance

Williams (2012): External exercise information provides no immediate additional performance benefit to untrained individuals in time trial cycling

Wilson (2012): Influence of accurate and inaccurate 'split-time' feedback upon 10-mile time trial cycling performance

Achten (2004): Higher dietary carbohydrate content during intensified running training results in better maintenance of performance and mood state

Amhetov (2015): Genome-wide association study identifies three novel genetic markers associated with elite enduranceperformance

Apel (2011): A comparison of traditional and weekly undulating periodized strength training programs with total volume and intensity equated

Armstrong (2011): Endurance training and elite young athletes

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