Physiological Profiles of Recreational Runners and Cyclists Aged 20 to 60 Years

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fo3.XBbCNW" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fo3.XBbCNW</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12073252" target="_blank" >10.3390/app12073252</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Physiological Profiles of Recreational Runners and Cyclists Aged 20 to 60 Years

Original language description

Featured Application The study of men and women in middle and older middle age engaged in recreational cycling and running yielded data on the effects of these physical activities and showed an association between the physical activity, body composition, maximum oxygen consumption and maximum performance capacity during aging. Human physical activities may bring potential health benefits. The aim of our study was to compare body composition, lung function and aerobic fitness as a function of age in a cross-sectional study of 277 recreational cyclists (men: n = 163, women: n = 114) and 377 recreational runners (men: n = 239, women: n = 138) aged 20 to 60 years, with a training volume of about 2000 to 4000 km per year for cyclists and 25 to 60 km per week for runners. The survey focused on comparing the values of body composition, lung function and aerobic fitness in dependence on age. The results suggest that recreational cycling and running is associated with a favorable body composition and increased physical fitness, where the percentage of body fat in athletes corresponds to about 70-90% of the population norm, while physical fitness indices, maximum oxygen consumption and maximum exercise performance corresponded at about 140 to 150% of the population norms. The study confirms the assumption that the decrease in physiological functions and/or physical condition with age is much slower in those who participate in recreational sports than in the general nonsports population.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Applied Sciences [online]

ISSN

2076-3417

e-ISSN

2076-3417

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

000781837500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127516873