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Ever wonder why the swim affected your bike so much ?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26272315

"cycling exercise tolerance after prior upper body exercise is potentially mediated by central fatigue and intolerable levels of sensory perception rather than a critical peripheral fatigue limit"

2015-10-27 8:35 AM
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I'd beinterested to know what level of swimming the cyclists were at.  I'd be willing to bet that very well trained swimmers can mitigate some of that, especially at certain distances.

2015-10-27 9:05 AM
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Thanks for sharing this. This is something that has always interested me but I haven't taken much time to research it and rarely see it mentioned in athletic articles. I've had similar questions since my early weight training days. Why is it if I perform several sets of leg exercises then go to the bench press, I can't lift as much? My colleagues often told me it didn't, it was in my head and I was just being lazier.

I will take time to break the article and terms down to better understand it all.

I am glad it goes SBR because I have done transition runs after swims and find it more difficult than bike to run which seems to contradict logic.
2015-10-27 9:12 AM
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They need to learn to glide more.
2015-10-27 10:28 AM
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Originally posted by runtim23

Thanks for sharing this. This is something that has always interested me but I haven't taken much time to research it and rarely see it mentioned in athletic articles. I've had similar questions since my early weight training days. Why is it if I perform several sets of leg exercises then go to the bench press, I can't lift as much? My colleagues often told me it didn't, it was in my head and I was just being lazier.

I will take time to break the article and terms down to better understand it all.

I am glad it goes SBR because I have done transition runs after swims and find it more difficult than bike to run which seems to contradict logic.


So if I understand it properly they measured local muscle fatigue and tested cyclists to exhaustion.
If they had done previous upper body exercise they would hit the exhaustion with less lower body muscle fatigue.
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