Metabolic and Muscle Damage Profiles of Concentric versus Repeated Eccentric Cycling

Luis Peñailillo, Anthony J. Blazevich, Hideo Numazawa, Kazunori Nosaka

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2013 · 127 citations · 41 references

Abstract

Eccentric cycling was less metabolically demanding than concentric cycling, and HR and BLa were further reduced during ECC2. Muscle damage is minimal after ECC2 and should not influence the choice to undertake eccentric cycling training.

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