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Author Viru, A. A.

Title Biochemical monitoring of sport training / Atko Viru, Mehis Viru
Published Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, 2001

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Description xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction: necessity and opportunity -- Ch. 2. Metabolic adaptation in training -- Ch. 3. Metabolites and substrates -- Ch. 4. Methodology of hormonal studies -- Ch. 5. Hormones as tools for training monitoring -- Ch. 6. Hematological and immunological indexes and water-electrolyte balance -- Ch. 7. Feedback from training-induced effects -- Ch. 8. Evaluating training workloads -- Ch. 9. Assessing changes in adaptivity for optimizing training strategies
Summary This text pairs in-depth explanations of what happens biochemically while athletes perform with practical suggestions for how to actually biochemically monitor athletes yourself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-276) and index
Subject Sports -- Physiological aspects.
Exercise -- Physiological aspects.
Biochemistry.
Clinical biochemistry.
Sports -- physiology.
Biochemistry.
Chemistry, Clinical.
Exercise -- physiology.
Author Viru, Mehis, 1963-
LC no. 2001024107
ISBN 0736003487
9780736003483