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The efficiency of bicycle pedalling in the trained subject
Author(s) -
Garry R. C.,
Wishart G. M.
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jphysiol.1934.sp003174
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , citation , computer science , wishart distribution , library science , information retrieval , world wide web , artificial intelligence , machine learning , multivariate statistics
The observed values were in satisfactory agreement with the numerator of the equation, but attempts to find a relation between the denominator and the metabolic cost of the muscular effort failed signally. These experiments were carried out on untrained subjects. Recently the opportunity arose to repeat the experiments on a professional racing cyclist. It was hoped that the results obtained would show the differences between the trained and untrained subject, and also, that it might be possible to find more satisfactory agreement in the trained subject between the denominator of Hill's equation and the metabolic energy expended in muscular movement. The trained subject (C.F.D.) rode as an amateur until 1923, and then as a professional until 1926, when he gave up racing but still kept himself in thorough training. His fitness may be gauged by the fact that, a few days before coming to the laboratory, he rode 209 miles on the road in