Physiological and training characteristics in marathon runners: The role of experience

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336148419_Physiological_and_Training_Characteristics_in_Male_Marathon_Runners_The_Role_of_Sport_Experience" target="_blank" >https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336148419_Physiological_and_Training_Characteristics_in_Male_Marathon_Runners_The_Role_of_Sport_Experience</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OAJSM.S141657" target="_blank" >10.2147/OAJSM.S141657</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Physiological and training characteristics in marathon runners: The role of experience

Original language description

Aim: The aim of the present study was to examine physiological and training characteristics in marathon runners with different sport experience (defined as the number of finishes in marathon races). Methods: The anthropometry and physiological characteristics of men recreational endurance runners with three or less finishes in marathon races (n=69, age 43.5±8.0 years) and four or more finishes (n=66, 45.2±9.4 years) were compared. Results: More experienced runners had faster personal best marathon time (3:44±0:36 vs. 4:20±0:44 h:min, p<0.001, respectively), lower flexibility (15.9±9.3 vs. 19.3±15.9 cm, p=0.022), abdominal (20.6±7.9 vs. 23.8±9.0 mm, p=0.030) and suprailiac skinfold thickness (16.7±6.7 vs. 19.9±7.9 mm, p=0.013), body fat assessed by bioimpedance analysis 13.0±4.4 vs. 14.6±4.7%, p=0.047), more weekly training days (4.6±1.4 vs. 4.1±1.0 days, p=0.038) and longer weekly running distance (58.8±24.0 47.2±16.1 km, p=0.001) than their less experienced counterparts. The number of finishes in marathon races correlated with squat and (r=-0.41, p=0.021) countermovement jump (r=-0.38, p=0.032), and with weekly training days (r=0.19, p=0.030) and running distance (r=0.25, p=0.004). Conclusion: The findings indicated that long-term marathon training might induce adaptations in endurance performance, body composition and flexibility. An interpretation of the lower score of flexibility in the more experienced group might be its relationship with running economy. The negative relationship of the number of finishes with indices of muscle strength (jump tests) suggested a negative adaptation of muscle strength to endurance training.

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

30105 - Physiology (including cytology)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Acta Physiologica

ISSN

1748-1708

e-ISSN

1748-1716

Volume of the periodical

227

Issue of the periodical within the volume

S719

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

2

Pages from-to

1-2

UT code for WoS article

000487978200111

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