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Hypoxic dose, intensity distribution, and fatigue monitoring are paramount for “live high-train low” effectiveness

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  1. Laboratory Sport, Expertise and Performance (EA 7370), Research Department, French Institute of Sport (INSEP), 11 Avenue du Tremblay, Paris, France

    Franck Brocherie

  2. National Ski-Nordic Center, Premanon, Les Rousses, France

    L. Schmitt

  3. Institute of Sports Sciences (ISSUL), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    G. P. Millet

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This article is a comment on: Endurance, aerobic high-intensity, and repeated sprint cycling performance is unaffected by normobaric “Live High-Train Low”: a double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over study, by Bejder J, Andersen AB, Buchardt R, Larsson TH, Olsen NV, Nordsborg NB. Eur J Appl Physiol (2017) 117:979–988.

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Brocherie, F., Schmitt, L. & Millet, G.P. Hypoxic dose, intensity distribution, and fatigue monitoring are paramount for “live high-train low” effectiveness. Eur J Appl Physiol 117, 2119–2120 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-017-3664-3

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