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Adaptation to training loads can be quantitatively described by a dose-effect dependence, with the gain in the training function over a certain period regarded as the effect and the dose expressed as a product of the energy spent during exercise and the stimulus duration. The duration combines the periods of exercises, pauses, and recovery needed to compensate for the fast fraction of the oxygen debt. In addition to direct measurements of the energy spent, quantitative assessment of the load intensity can be based on the total pulse cost of exercise, which accurately reflects the changes in the oxygen demand and the energy cost of the physical load. To quantitate and standardize training and competition loads, we suggest the use of correlations found between the pulse and energy costs of exercises and their relative power determined in critical modes of muscle activity: at the anaerobic threshold; the critical power, associated with the maximum oxygen consumption; the alactic anaerobic threshold; the power of exhaustion, when blood lactic acid reaches its maximum; or at maximum aerobic power, when the muscle reserves of ATP and creatine phosphate are the most depleted.
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Translated from Fiziologiya Cheloveka, Vol. 31, No. 5, 2005, pp. 125–134.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Volkov, Popov, Gabrys', Shmatlyan-Gabrys'.
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Volkov, N.I., Popov, O.I., Gabrys', T. et al. Physiological Criteria in Defining the Standards for Training and Competition Loads in Elite Sports. Hum Physiol 31, 606–614 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10747-005-0102-4
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