IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rpanxx/v20y2020i6p1052-1060.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The influence of different track surfaces and bicycles on mountain biking performance

Author

Listed:
  • António Silveira
  • Luís Rama

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the impact induced by different track surfaces and type of bicycles on the mechanical and physiological variables in mountain biker performance.Sixteen mountain bike male athletes (70,2 ± 5,4 kg of body mass, 172,7 ± 4,0 cm of height, 9,8 ± 3,5% of body fat, 52,3 ± 3,9 mL/kg/min of VO2max) participated in this study. After the laboratory cardiorespiratory, athletes complete in random order 3 field trials of 20 minutes performed at maximum intensity. The type of bike (road and mountain bikes) and surface (ground and asphalt tracks) were changed in each trail.The trials on ground track and asphalt with MTB showed no differences in most of the variables except in the values of mechanical power output. Between the ground and asphalt trials on MTB, we observed associations in mean (r = 0,877) and maximum heart rates (r = 0,879), mean (r = 0,923) and relative (r = 0,913) power outputs. The trials performed on asphalt with different bicycles showed differences in the mean power output (p = 0,007).We conclude that the different track surfaces and bicycles influence the external power output values, without changes in the central component of the effort (heart rate).

Suggested Citation

  • António Silveira & Luís Rama, 2020. "The influence of different track surfaces and bicycles on mountain biking performance," International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(6), pages 1052-1060, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:20:y:2020:i:6:p:1052-1060
    DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2020.1826692
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/24748668.2020.1826692
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/24748668.2020.1826692?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:20:y:2020:i:6:p:1052-1060. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RPAN20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.