Training for Elite Team-Pursuit Track Cyclists-Part I: A Profile of General Training Characteristics.

Stadnyk, AMJ; Stanley, J; Decker, T; Slattery, KM

Training for Elite Team-Pursuit Track Cyclists-Part I: A Profile of General Training Characteristics.

Stadnyk, AMJ Stanley, J Decker, T Slattery, KM

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Publisher:: Human Kinetics
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Int J Sports Physiol Perform, 2024, pp. 1-11
Issue Date:: 2024-08-14

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dc.contributor.author	Stadnyk, AMJ
dc.contributor.author	Stanley, J
dc.contributor.author	Decker, T
dc.contributor.author	Slattery, KM
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-15T06:26:10Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-04
dc.date.available	2024-08-15T06:26:10Z
dc.date.issued	2024-08-14
dc.identifier.citation	Int J Sports Physiol Perform, 2024, pp. 1-11
dc.identifier.issn	1555-0265
dc.identifier.issn	1555-0273
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/180419
dc.description.abstract	PURPOSE: To profile the training characteristics of an elite team pursuit cycling squad and assess variations in training intensity and load accumulation across the 36-week period prior to a world-record performance at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. METHODS: Training data of 5 male track endurance cyclists (mean [SD]; age 21.9 [3.52] y; 4.4 [0.16] W·kg-1 at anaerobic threshold; 6.2 [0.28] W·kg-1 maximal oxygen uptake 68.7 [2.99] mL kg·min-1) were analyzed with weekly total training volume and heart rate, power output, and torque intensity distributions calculated with reference to their 3:49.804 min:s.ms performance requirements for a 4-km team pursuit. RESULTS: Athletes completed 543 (37) h-1 of training across 436 (16) sessions. On-bike activities accounted for 69.9% of all training sessions, with participants cycling 11,246 (1139) km-1 in the training period of interest, whereas 12.7% of sessions involved gym/strength training. A pyramidal intensity distribution was evident with over 65% and 70% of training, respectively, performed at low-intensity zone heart rate and power output, whereas 5.3% and 7.7% of training was performed above anaerobic threshold. The athletes accumulated 4.4% of total training volume at, or above, their world-record team pursuit lead position torque (55 N·m). CONCLUSIONS: These data provide updated and novel insight to the power and torque demands and load accumulation contributing to world-record team pursuit performance. Although the observed pyramidal intensity distribution is common in endurance sports, the lack of shift toward a polarized intensity distribution during taper and competition peaking differs from previous research.
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Human Kinetics
dc.relation.ispartof	Int J Sports Physiol Perform
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1123/ijspp.2023-0496
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 2024, Ahead of Print:1-11, http://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2023-0496. © Human Kinetics, Inc.
dc.subject	1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences, 1116 Medical Physiology, 1701 Psychology
dc.subject.classification	Sport Sciences
dc.subject.classification	3202 Clinical sciences
dc.subject.classification	3208 Medical physiology
dc.subject.classification	4207 Sports science and exercise
dc.title	Training for Elite Team-Pursuit Track Cyclists-Part I: A Profile of General Training Characteristics.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.location.activity	United States
utslib.for	1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences
utslib.for	1116 Medical Physiology
utslib.for	1701 Psychology
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HPRC - Human Performance Research Centre
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2024-08-15T06:26:07Z
pubs.publication-status	Published online

Abstract:

PURPOSE: To profile the training characteristics of an elite team pursuit cycling squad and assess variations in training intensity and load accumulation across the 36-week period prior to a world-record performance at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. METHODS: Training data of 5 male track endurance cyclists (mean [SD]; age 21.9 [3.52] y; 4.4 [0.16] W·kg-1 at anaerobic threshold; 6.2 [0.28] W·kg-1 maximal oxygen uptake 68.7 [2.99] mL kg·min-1) were analyzed with weekly total training volume and heart rate, power output, and torque intensity distributions calculated with reference to their 3:49.804 min:s.ms performance requirements for a 4-km team pursuit. RESULTS: Athletes completed 543 (37) h-1 of training across 436 (16) sessions. On-bike activities accounted for 69.9% of all training sessions, with participants cycling 11,246 (1139) km-1 in the training period of interest, whereas 12.7% of sessions involved gym/strength training. A pyramidal intensity distribution was evident with over 65% and 70% of training, respectively, performed at low-intensity zone heart rate and power output, whereas 5.3% and 7.7% of training was performed above anaerobic threshold. The athletes accumulated 4.4% of total training volume at, or above, their world-record team pursuit lead position torque (55 N·m). CONCLUSIONS: These data provide updated and novel insight to the power and torque demands and load accumulation contributing to world-record team pursuit performance. Although the observed pyramidal intensity distribution is common in endurance sports, the lack of shift toward a polarized intensity distribution during taper and competition peaking differs from previous research.

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