title: Standardized versus customized high-intensity training: effects on cycling performance.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether a submaximal cycling test could be used to monitor and prescribe high-intensity interval training (HIT).
  
  
  METHODS
  Two groups of male cyclists completed 4 HIT sessions over a 2-wk period. The structured-training group (SG; n = 8, VO2max = 58.4 ± 4.2 mL · min-1 · kg-1) followed a predetermined training program while the flexible-training group (FG; n = 7, VO2max = 53.9 ± 5.0 mL · min-1 · kg-1) had the timing of their HIT sessions prescribed based on the data of the Lamberts and Lambert Submaximal Cycle Test (LSCT).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Effect-size calculations showed large differences in the improvements in 40-km time-trial performance after the HIT training between SG (8 ± 45 s) and FG (48 ± 42 s). Heart-rate recovery, monitored during the study, tended to increase in FG and remain unchanged in SG.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of the current study suggest that the LSCT may be a useful tool for coaches to monitor and prescribe HIT.
authors.affiliation: UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Sport Science Institute of South Africa, Newlands, South Africa.
authors.forename: Benoit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Capostagno
authors.forename: Michael I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: Robert P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Lamberts
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001642:Bicycling; D005080:Exercise Test; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D064797:Physical Conditioning, Human / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D010807:Physical Endurance; D020127:Recovery of Function; D013019:South Africa; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013997:Time Factors