@article{ref1,
title="Some technical, physiological and anthropometrical aspects of speed skating",
journal="European journal of applied physiology and occupational physiology",
year="1983",
author="van Ingen Schenau, G. J. and de Groot, G. and Hollander, A. P.",
volume="50",
number="3",
pages="343-354",
abstract="Five elite speed skaters and fourteen well trained skaters of a lower performance level performed three maximal tests: a 3,000 m race from which the skating position and the stroke frequency were derived, an oxygen consumption test both during skating and during a bicycle ergometer test. From all subjects anthropometric measures were taken. The elite group showed a VO2 during cycling of 64.4 +/- 3.5 ml . kg-1 . min-1 and 59.4 +/- 3.7 ml . kg-1 . min-1 during skating. The elite skaters showed: a shorter upper leg length with respect to total leg length, higher aerobic power during cycling, higher stroke frequency, smaller pre-extension knee angle coupled to higher work per stroke, higher &quot;efficiency&quot; during skating and higher external power during skating and during cycling when compared with the group of lower performance level. It is concluded that an important pre-requisite for speed skating appears to be the possibility to skate at a small pre-extension knee angle without an excessive claim to anaerobic metabolism.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0301-5548",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}