Does the muscle mass influence the mileage?

Does Muscle Mass Affect Running Times in Male Long-distance Master Runners? It is generally assuming that older runners such as master runners (over 35 years old) the age-related degradation of muscle mass adversely affects the endurance performance.At half-marathon, marathon and 100km runners, we examined the relationship between muscle mass, body fat and competition time. If the influence of muscle mass, body fat and training were examined for maturities in a multivariance analysis, the body fat for half marathon, marathon and 100 km was a crucial variable. For half marathon and marathon, the running speed in training was crucial, for 100 km the weekly running kilometers.

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The Marathon des SABLES in numbers from 2003-2012

Participation and performance trends in multistage ultramarathons–the ‘Marathon des Sables’ 2003- 2012

We examined the development of the participants and their performance at the Marathon des SABLES ‘between 2003 and 2012. Of the 7,275 finishers were 12.9% women.Men ran the route much faster than the women.The difference between the sexes with 31.7 ± 2.0% was very high compared to previous results. The men’s race has been dominated by runners in the region in recent years with 9 victories by Moroccans and 1 victory through a Jordanian.For the women, on the other hand, Europeans dominated with 5 victories through French, 2 victories through Luxembourgers and 1 victory through a Spaniard. Only 2 Moroccans could prevail. Show details can be found at www.extremephysiolmed.com/content/1/1/13/abstract

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What distinguishes marathon runners of ultramarathon runner?

Ultramarathon runners: nature or nurture? An overview of existing literature for ultramarathon runners shows that these runners are in 80% men, typically 45 years old, achieve their best mileage between 30 and 49 years in men and 30 to 54 years in women. It can be assumed that the ultramarathon runners get over the marathon on long distances, because ultra-raptures have a significantly higher number of completed marathons than marathon runners.However, marathon runners have a much faster personal best time in the marathon as a UltraLauer.

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Comparison between men and women at freistic swimming

Women achieve peak freestyle swim speed at earlier ages than men We examined the age of the best swimming performance for freestyle. For men, for 100 m and 200 m, the fastest times were 22-23 years, for 400 meters and 800 m with 24-24 years and for 50 m and 1500 m at 26-27 years.

For women, the best times were achieved with 20-21 years for all routes except 800 m, there was the age of the best performance at 26-27 years. With increasing route length, the difference between the sexes decreased with 13.1 ± 1.3% for 50 m, 13.2 ± 0.9% for 100 m, 10.8 ± 0.9% for 200 m, 7.9 ± 1.3% for 400 m and 4.2 ± 2.0% for 800m. For 1500 m, however, the difference increased again to 6.4 ± 2.3%. All numbers can be found under https://www.dovepress.com/women-achieve-peak-freestyle-swim-speed-at-eaarlier-ages-than-men-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-oajsm

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Comparison between men and women in the English Channel

Male swimmers cross the English Channel faster than female swimmers Between 1875 and 2011, 1,606 swimmer (1,120 men and 486 women) have successfully passed through the sleeve channel between Dover and Calais.If you compare the swimming times of all women (796.3 ± 188.7 min) with the floating times of all men (815.4 ± 169.4 min), no difference was present. The fastest float time until the end of 2011 was 417 min for men and 445 min for women with a difference of 6.7%.If you take the three fastest times for men and women so far, there is a difference of 8.9 ± 2.3%. In the last 36 years, at least three men and three women have passed through the channel per year.The time of men (564.3 ± 63.8 min) was 12.5 ± 9.6% faster than the time of women (602.1 ± 58.7 min) and did not change over the years.

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Success balance at the longest triathlon of the USA

At Virgina Triple Iron at 9 Starts 9 Podetti Between 2002 and 2012 I have been totally 9 times at the Virgina Triple Iron at the start.I was able to win the race a total of 5 times (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010), and came to Rank 2 (2004 and 2012) and 2 times in place 3 (2002 and 2011).

This feature has no one managed otherwise. The list of all triathlets each in the USA at the start is to be found under www.usaultratri.com/docs/racerlist.pdf

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When is the age of the best Ironman time?

Age of peak performance in elite male and female Ironman triathletes competing in Ironman Switzerland, a qualifier for the Ironman world championship, Ironman Hawaii, from 1995 to 2011 We have analyzed the competition times at the ‘Ironman Switzerland’ from 1995-2011 to find out what age the best times are achieved. We sought the age sought in which the best conclusion times are achieved, but also in what age the best times for swimming, cycling and running.The top ten were 33 ± 3 years old in men and 34 ± 4 years in men. For women, there was no difference in old age for the best swimmers, cyclists or runners during men the best swimmers with 29 ± 3 years were significantly younger than the best runners at 35 ± 5 years.

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Swim at 10 degrees in Lake Constance

Changes in body core and body surface temperatures during prolonged swimming in water of 10 °C–a case report In the spring of 2012, the German extreme swimmer Bruno Dobelmann sponge in preparation for the land crossing for 6 hours at a temperature of just under 10 degrees.Basically, one would expect to come to a pronounced hypothermia in such a cold water as a long time. Surprisingly, however, the body core temperature remained constant and what was much more amazing, she even rose at the beginning of swimming.After exiting the water, the body core temperature dropped a bit, which is generally known as ‘afterdrop’. By the way, the swimmers would have had to be dead of cold water after 2 hours and 55 minutes by a formula at just under 10 ° C.

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