Lessons from history for V•O2max and the V•O2 plateau, part 1, 1920-1961: original concepts were based on discontinuous exercise protocols
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Alternative codes found
RIV/44555601:13450/25:43899523 RIV/00216208:11140/25:10507275
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2025.1688750" target="_blank" >10.3389/fphys.2025.1688750</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Lessons from history for V•O2max and the V•O2 plateau, part 1, 1920-1961: original concepts were based on discontinuous exercise protocols
Original language description
Purpose The maximal rate of oxygen uptake ( V (center dot) O 2 max) has an early history (1920-1961) based on discontinuous incremental exercise protocols. Regardless, debate continues on many sub-topics and methodologies involved in this measure. There could be lessons to learn about the relevance, or not, of content within the accumulating knowledge of this topic if there is a detailed account of the research of this time-period.Methods Manuscript references were retrieved from PubMed and Google Scholar for the targeted topics and time-period.Results In 1923 and 1924, Hill proposed that during discontinuous incremental exercise bouts, there is eventually a levelling in V (center dot) O 2 despite increasing exercise intensity or sustained effort. Subsequent researchers in the 1950's described this 'levelling in V (center dot) O 2 ' observation as a plateau, which functioned to verify V (center dot) O 2 max. However, when critiquing the data from studies with valid methodology, evidence of a V (center dot) O 2 plateau at or near V (center dot) O 2 max was only seen in a subset of participants in 1924 (2 of 7), with added evidence in 1959 (2 of 4) and 1961 (4 of 5). Collectively, 50% of the subjects were unable to attain a V (center dot) O 2 plateau response at V (center dot) O 2 max.Conclusion Despite major limitations to the published research and data interpretations prior to 1961, such work led to the incorrect (not evidence-based) expectation that all participants should demonstrate a V (center dot) O 2 plateau at or near V (center dot) O 2 max. The inter-connectedness of V (center dot) O 2 max and the V (center dot) O 2 plateau concepts thereby became engrained into the pre-1970s, and perhaps later, epistemology of exercise physiology.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Physiology
ISSN
1664-042X
e-ISSN
1664-042X
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1688750
UT code for WoS article
001641987600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105025522305