Physiological Adaptations to Endurance Training

Dear Colleagues,

Endurance training is a complex training modality which can be simplified to any type of planned activity that involves repeated isotonic muscle contraction to promote improvements in muscle metabolism and function or cardiovascular metabolism and function. Traditional endurance training has focused on the long duration from low- to moderate-intensity exercise to affect these systems. However, recent evidence suggests intensity as a crucial component for endurance adaptation. Endurance is probably the most crucial adaptation for both lifestyle and sports performance interventions to affect change in the participants. For example, a major adaptation to endurance style training is to increase fatigue resistance within the skeletal muscle which translates into an improved self-reported health status and physical function in a wide variety of populations; however, this also translates into improved game performance in team sports or the capacity to hold a higher power output in individual sports such as running or cycling.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present novel findings about endurance adaptations with training related to any aspect of health or sports performance. This can include novel endurance training modalities, non-endurance-based training that produces endurance type adaptations or novel outcome measures. New research papers, meta-analysis, reviews or case reports are sought for this issue, but papers should have a focus on the physiological response around endurance adaptations.

Dr. John Babraj
Guest Editor

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