What does VO2 mean?

oxygen consumption

Hi Fernando, in fact a number of studies are available on modeling O2 kinetics. I would recommend to get through the textbook of Andy Jones to get an idea. 

Best alfred

http://www.amazon.com/Oxygen-Uptake-Kinetics-Exercise-Medicine/dp/0415305616

Hi Fernando, I agree with Alfred, that text book is really good as it explains the VO2 kinetics from different points of view. Also Googling Andrew Jones you can get a lot of papers about VO2 kinetics and exercise. If you are also looking at changes in VO2 kinetics during a bout of exercise after a training period you can download from my profile  a paper that I published compering VO2 kinetics after both aerobic and high intensity interval training.  hope this help Regards    Mariasole

Perfect! Mariasole, I'll read your paper and I hope understand more about VO2 kinetics. Thanks Alfred, too.

Fernando, I think these two articles might help you....a view before 2000 and a more recent aspect relating to sports performance.

Cheers

The second one

The kinetics of VO2 it is a term that explains how behaves oxygen consumption in dynamic terms while performing a physical effort. It is usually measured during incremental exercise, and all aerobic-anaerobic training interferes with their dynamics. Therefore, there are numerous articles dealing with this term and this line of research, just look for the term kinetics of VO2 you will find many that interest you. Good luck!

Hi Fernando,

Here is a brief list of some papers related to on and off transient oxygen uptake kinetics including its relevant subjects like Prior Exercise, Slow Component, Minimum Velocity (or power) to Elicit VO2max and Pacing Strategies. I hope the list helps to find your answers. 

Best regards,

Muzaffer Colakoglu, PhD

A Review:

• Xu F, Rhodes EC. Oxygen uptake kinetics during exercise. Sports Medicine, 27 (5): 313-327, 1999

Original Papers:

• Grassi B, Poole DC, Richardson RS, Knight DR, Erickson BK, Wagner PD. Muscle O2 uptake kinetics in humans: implications for metabolic control. Journal of Applied Physiology, 988-998, 1996

• Renoux JC, Petit B, Billat V, Koralsztein JP. Oxygen deficit is related to the exercise time to exhaustion at maximal aerobic speed in middle distance runners. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 107(4): 280–285, 1999

• Cunningham DA, St Croix CM, Paterson DH, Ozyener F, Whipp BJ. The off-transient pulmonary oxygen uptake (VO2) kinetics following attainment of a particular VO2 during heavy-intensity exercise in humans. Experimental Physiology, 85(3): 339—347, 2000

• Özyener F, Rossiter HB, Ward SA, Whipp BJ. Influence of exercise intensity on the on- and off transient kinetics of pulmonary oxygen uptake in humans. Journal of Physiology, 533(3): 891–902, 2001

• Williams CA, Carter H, Jones AM, Doust JH. Oxygen uptake kinetics during treadmill running in boys and men. Journal of Applied Physiology, 90: 1700-1706, 2001

• Bishop D, Bonetti D, Dawson B. The influence of pacing strategy on VO2 and supramaximal kayak performance. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 34(6): 1041–1047, 2002.

• Jones AM, Carter H, Pringle JM, Campbell IT. Effect of creatine supplementation on oxygen uptake kinetics during submaximal cycle exercise. Journal of Applied Physiology, 92: 2571–2577, 2002

• Burnley M, Doust JH, Ball D, Jones AM. Effects of prior heavy exercise on VO2kinetics during heavy exercise are related to changes in muscle activity. Journal of Applied Physiology , 93: 167–174, 2002

• Billat VL, Hamard L, Koralsztein L. The influence of exercise duration at VO2 max on the off-transient pulmonary oxygen uptake phase during high intensity running activity. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 110(5): 883-892, 2002

• Caputo F, Mello MT, Denadai BS. Oxygen uptake kinetics and time to exhaustion in cycling and running: a comparison between trained and untrained subjects. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 111( 5): 461–466, 2003

• Wilkerson DP, Koppo K, Barstow TJ, Jones AM. Effect of prior multiple-sprint exercise on pulmonary O2 uptake kinetics following the onset of perimaximal exercise. Journal of Applied Physiology, 97:1227-1236, 2004

• Poole DC, Barstow TJ, McDonough P, Jones AM. Control of oxygen uptake kinetics during exercise. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 40(3): 462-474, 2008

• Bailey SV, Vanhatalo A, Wilkerson DP, Jones AM. Fast-start strategy improves VO2 kinetics and high-intensity exercise performance. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 43(3): 457-467, 2011

• Jones AM, Grassi B, Christensen PM, Krustrup P, Bangsbo J. Poole DC. Slow Component of VO2 Kinetics: Mechanistic Bases and Practical Applications. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 43(11):2046-62, 2011

• Bucheit M, Peiffer J, Abbiss CR, Laursen PB. Performance and physiological responses during a sprint interval training session: relationships with muscle oxygenation and pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 112(2):767-79, 2012

Dear Fernando,

I agree the Jones and Poole book is a good place to start. Also the reviews below are more recent than some of the others posted:

Poole DC, Jones AM. Oxygen uptake kinetics. Compr Physiol. 2012 Apr;2(2):933-96. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c100072.

Rossiter HB. Exercise: Kinetic considerations for gas exchange. Compr Physiol. 2011 Jan;1(1):203-44.

Whipp BJ, Ward SA, Rossiter HB. Pulmonary O2 uptake during exercise: conflating muscular and cardiovascular responses. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2005 Sep;37(9):1574-85.

Best wishes,

Harry

Look at my last article

Here is a nice reading on this issue:

https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/4/4/article-p524.xml