Revisiting the Power-duration Relationship and Developing Alternative Protocols to Estimate Critical Power Parameters

Critical Power concept is used extensively in sport to characterize an individual's fitness by estimating the anaerobic and the aerobic component of the energy system, anaerobic work capacity (W') and Critical Power (CP). The model makes an assumption that all types of athlete have the same pattern of responses when it comes to power and time to exhaustion, however recent study showed different observation. Therefore, a more generalized model was proposed with a relationship constant, n, that can freely describe the relationship and the model demonstrated no difference between types of athlete across swimming (n=0.29) and cycling (n=0.48), but the relationship is significantly different from traditional assumption (p

Department dc:contributor.department

Exercise Sciences

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Tsai, Ming-Chang

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Thomas, Scott G

• critical power
• exercise
• modeling
• performance
• testing

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1807/69056

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:utoronto.scholaris.ca:1807/69056