Anaerobic threshold and respiratory gas exchange during exercise.

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Lactate Threshold Concepts: How Valid are They?

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Methodological approach to the first and second lactate threshold in incremental cardiopulmonary exercise testing

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An Examination and Critique of Current Methods to Determine Exercise Intensity

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Incremental Exercise Test Design and Analysis: Implications for Performance Diagnostics in Endurance Athletes

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Effects of Endurance Training on Mitochondrial Ultrastructure and Fiber Type Distribution in Skeletal Muscle of Patients With Stable Chronic Heart Failure

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Muscle respiratory capacity and fiber type as determinants of the lactate threshold

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The anaerobic threshold: 50+ years of controversy

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Positive effects of acute and moderate physical exercise on cognitive function

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A randomized controlled trial of deep water running: clinical effectiveness of aquatic exercise to treat fibromyalgia

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Identification of Non-Invasive Exercise Thresholds: Methods, Strategies, and an Online App

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Methods of Assessment of the Post-exercise Cardiac Autonomic Recovery: A Methodological Review

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Validity and reliability of ventilatory and blood lactate thresholds in well-trained cyclists

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Muscle capillary blood flow kinetics estimated from pulmonary O2 uptake and near-infrared spectroscopy

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Reproducibility of aerobic and anaerobic thresholds in 20–50 year old men

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Effects of physical training on heart rate variability in diabetic patients with various degrees of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy

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A Review of the Concept of the Heart Rate Deflection Point

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Plasma catecholamines during endurance exercise of different intensities as related to the individual anaerobic threshold

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The effects of caffeine on graded exercise performance in caffeine naive versus habituated subjects

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Age-related effects of exercise training on diastolic function in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: The Leipzig Exercise Intervention in Chronic Heart Failure and Aging (LEICA) Diastolic Dysfunction Study

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Early heart rate recovery after exercise predicts mortality in patients with chronic heart failure

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Dietary nitrate supplementation and exercise tolerance in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

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Variability in exercise tolerance and physiological responses to exercise prescribed relative to physiological thresholds and to maximum oxygen uptake

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The balance of muscle oxygen supply and demand reveals critical metabolic rate and predicts time to exhaustion

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Determination of Maximal Lactate Steady State in Healthy Adults: Can NIRS Help?

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Determination of respiratory point compensation in healthy adults: Can non-invasive near-infrared spectroscopy help?

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Randomized clinical trial: benefits of aerobic physical activity for 24 weeks in postmenopausal women with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

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Efficiency of twice weekly concurrent training in trained elderly men

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Role of decreased carbohydrate oxidation on slower rises in ventilation with increasing exercise intensity after training

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The effects of four weeks of creatine supplementation and high-intensity interval training on cardiorespiratory fitness: A randomized controlled trial

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1998 ISEK Congress Keynote Lecture

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Effects of β-Hydroxy-β-Methylbutyrate on Aerobic-Performance Components and Body Composition in College Students

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Cardiovascular Rehabilitation in Patients With Diabetes

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Reliability of assessments of ventilatory thresholds

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Energetics of shuttle runs: the effects of distance and change of direction

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Inter-individual differences in working memory improvement after acute mild and moderate aerobic exercise.

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The relationship between the ventilation and lactate thresholds following normal, low and high carbohydrate diets

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Effects of creatine loading on electromyographic fatigue threshold during cycle ergometry in college-aged women

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Skeletal Muscle Deoxygenation During Exercise Assessed by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and its Relation to Expired Gas Analysis Parameters

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Aerobic training enhances muscle deoxygenation in early post-myocardial infarction

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Differences between the Vastus Lateralis and Gastrocnemius Lateralis in the Assessment Ability of Breakpoints of Muscle Oxygenation for Aerobic Capacity Indices During an Incremental Cycling Exercise.

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Contribution of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide sensing to the energetic optimization of human walking

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The rating of perceived exertion is not different at the ventilatory threshold in sedentary women with different body mass indices

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Association Between Different Non-Invasively Derived Thresholds with Lactate Threshold during Graded Incremental Exercise

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Heritability of running economy: a study made on twin brothers

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Association Between Deoxygenated Hemoglobin Breaking Point, Anaerobic Threshold, and Rowing Performance

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Comparisons of local and systemic aerobic fitness parameters between finswimmers with different athlete grade levels

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Monitoring skeletal muscle oxygen saturation kinetics during graded exercise testing in NCAA division I female rowers

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