Table 2 Physiological and biomechanical changes during the swim-to-cycle transition
Type | Physiological changes | Biomechanical changes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VO2/VE/RF during cycling | La/HR after swim/during cycling | Hct/Hb/WBC after swim | RPE / T° after swim | PV after swim | GE during cycling | PW during cycling | SSF/RPM | SSL | PT | |
FD [Laursen et al.] [18] |  + 5% VO2  + 6.7% VE |  + 2% HR |  |  |  |  | − 4.7% |  |  |  |
HD [Rothschild et al.] [19] |  + 4% VO2 |  + 4% HR |  |  |  |  | − 3.8% PW mean |  |  |  |
HD [Rothschild et al.] [41] | Â | HR No Change | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
OD [Long et al.] [27] |  |  + 21.2%LDH  + 25% Cre |  + 39% WBC  + 3.8% RBC |  | − 9.6% |  | − 6% |  |  |  |
OD [Delextrat et al.] [43] |  + 5% VO2  + 15.7% VE  + 19.9% RF |  + 9.3% HR  + 32.2% La |  |  |  | − 13% |  |  |  |  |
OD [González-Haro et al.] [44] | No change | High to low HR no change |  |  |  |  | No change |  |  |  |
SD [Kreider et al., 1988] [33] |  + 5.6% VO2  + 5.3% VE |  |  |  + 0.8% T° |  | − 17% |  |  |  |  |
SD [Mc Naughton et al.] [28] |  |  |  |  | − 3.8% to 4.3% |  | No change |  |  |  |
SD [Delextrat et al.] [45] |  + 4.5% VO2  + 14.4% VE  + 15.6% RF |  + 11% HR  + 47% La |  |  |  | − 12.1% |  |  + 14% SSR |  |  |
SD [Delextrat et al., 2003] [46] |  + 4.4% VO2  + 6.6% VE  + 9.4% RF |  + 7% HR  + 29.3% La |  | High RPE |  | − 4.8% |  |  + 5.6% RPM |  |  |
SD [Delextrat et al.] [55] |  + 5% VO2  + 19% VE  + 24.8% RF |  + 7% HR  + 42.9% La |  |  |  | − 15.5% |  |  |  |  |
SD [Delextrat et al.] [47] |  + 5% VO2 |  + 6.4% HR  + 16.7% La |  | High RPE |  | − 5.4% |  |  + 5.8% RPM |  | − 2.9% Pk − 3.9% Mn |
SD [Peeling et al.] [48] | No change |  + 75% La |  | High RPE |  | − 4.2% | − 9.6% |  + 20.5% SSF |  |  |
SD [Peeling et al.] [30] |  |  + 1.8% HR  + 1.2% La |  |  + 2.4%T° |  |  | No change |  |  |  |
SD [Wu et al.] [54] |  |  |  | High RPE |  |  | − 6.5% |  |  |  |
SD [Barragán et al.] [49] |  |  + 59% La |  |  |  |  | No change | No change RPM |  |  |
MTR [Bentley et al.] [50] | No change |  + 3.5% HR  ~  + 87% La |  |  |  |  | − 11% PW mean |  + 18.4% SSF |  |  |