Faculty of Health, School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation, Human Performance Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia.
New South Wales Institute of Sport, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2024 Aug 14;19(10):1137-1147. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.2023-0496. Print 2024 Oct 1.
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.
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.
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).
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.
分析一支精英团队追逐自行车队的训练特点，并评估在 2018 年英联邦运动会上创造世界纪录前 36 周的训练强度和负荷积累的变化。
对 5 名男子场地耐力自行车运动员（平均[标准差]；年龄 21.9 [3.52]岁；无氧阈时 4.4 [0.16]W·kg-1；最大摄氧量时 6.2 [0.28]W·kg-1；68.7 [2.99]mL·kg-1·min-1）的训练数据进行分析，每周总训练量和心率、功率输出和扭矩强度分布根据他们 4 公里团队追逐赛 3:49.804 分钟：秒的成绩要求进行计算。
运动员完成了 543（37）小时-1的训练，共 436（16）次训练。自行车活动占所有训练课程的 69.9%，参与者在训练期间共骑行 11246（1139）公里-1，其中 12.7%的课程涉及健身房/力量训练。训练强度呈金字塔形分布，低强度心率和功率输出分别占 65%和 70%以上，而无氧阈以上的训练分别占 5.3%和 7.7%。运动员在总训练量的 4.4%上积累了他们的世界纪录团队追逐领先位置的扭矩（55 N·m）。
这些数据提供了更新的、新颖的关于力量和扭矩需求以及对世界纪录团队追逐表现有贡献的负荷积累的见解。尽管观察到的金字塔形强度分布在耐力运动中很常见，但在比赛和比赛高峰期向极化强度分布的转变与之前的研究不同。
