The risk associated with multiple cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and all-cause
mortality is decreased in individuals who meet the current recommendations for physical …

Cross-country (XC) skiing is one of the most demanding of endurance sports, involving
protracted competitions on varying terrain employing a variety of skiing techniques that …

Purpose To describe training variations across the annual cycle in Olympic and World
Champion endurance athletes, and determine whether these athletes used tapering …

Many of the established positive health benefits of exercise have been documented by
historical discoveries in the field of exercise physiology. These investigations often assess …

Successful cross‐country skiing, one of the most demanding of endurance sports, involves
considerable physiological challenges posed by the combined upper‐and lower‐body effort …

Purpose The objective of this study is to compare the physiological capacity and training
characteristics of the world's six highest ranked female cross-country skiers (world class …

The biathlon, an Olympic sporting discipline that combines cross-country skiing with rifle
marksmanship, entails considerable physiological demands, as well as fine motor control …

Background Sprint events in cross-country skiing are unique not only with respect to their
length (0.8–1.8 km), but also in involving four high-intensity heats of~ 3 min in duration …

ABSTRACT STO GGL, TL, and H.-C. HOLMBERG. Double-Poling Biomechanics of Elite
Cross-country Skiers: Flat versus Uphill Terrain. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 48, No. 8, pp …

Purpose This study aimed to quantify the repeated oxygen deficits attained during
intermittent endurance exercise by measuring oxygen consumption (V˙ O2) and oxygen …