Anaerobic Running Capacity Determined from a 3-Parameter Systems Model: Relationship with other Anaerobic Indices and with Running Performance in the 800 m-Run

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare anaerobic running capacity (ARC, i.e., the distance that can be run using only stored energy sources in the muscle) determined from a 3-parameter systems model with other anaerobic indices and with running performance in the 800 m. Seventeen trained male subjects (V·O_2max = 66.54 ± 7.29 ml · min^-1 · kg^-1) performed an incremental test to exhaustion for the determination of V·O_2max and peak treadmill velocity (PTV), five randomly ordered constant velocity tests at 95, 100, 105, 110, and 120 % of PTV to compute ARC and oxygen deficit (O₂def, at 110 % of PTV), and a 800-m time trial to determine running performance (mean velocity over the distance, V_{800 m}) and peak blood lactate concentration ([La^-]_{b, peak}). ARC (467 ± 123 m) was positively correlated with O₂def (56.35 ± 18.47 ml · kg^-1; r = 0.57; p < 0.05), but not with [La^-]_{b, peak} (15.08 ± 1.48 mmol · l^-1; r = - 0.16; p > 0.05). The O₂ equivalent of ARC (i.e., the product of ARC by the energy cost of running; 103.74 ± 28.25 ml · kg^-1), which is considered as an indirect estimation of O₂def, was significantly higher than O₂def (p < 0.01, effect size = 1.99). It was concluded that ARC is partially determined by anaerobic pathway, but that it probably does not provide an accurate measure of anaerobic capacity, if, however, O₂def can be considered as a criterion measure for it.

Key words

Middle distance running - oxygen deficit - peak blood lactate concentration

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