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Determining the Contribution of the Energy Systems During Exercise
Published on: March 20, 2012
[Some performance tests among athletes: their importance according to sport, their interests and interpretation]
1Unité orthopédie et traumatologie du sport, Clinique orthopédie, Département de Chirurgie, HUG, 1211 Geneve. jean-luc.ziltener@hcuge.ch
Abstract:
In the multiple performance tests that actually exist, the choice of the most representative evaluation of the physical activity is crucial. For the general or field practitioner who wants to give his or her athlete the most useful informations for the follow-up, this choice may be very difficult. Nevertheless, the results of those tests, once a correct interpretation have been done, will give opportunity to built an efficient training's program, whatever the type of sports or the athlete's level. This change in the management of the sportsman is an answer to the request of the athlete or his trainer; from now on, they both want a more scientific training's planning, built on physiological parameters.
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