TY - JOUR
T1 - Influences of compression cycling skinsuit on energy consumption of amateur male cyclists
AU - Shi, Qiuqiong
AU - Shin, Woo Kyung
AU - Chow, Hung Kay Daniel
AU - Jiao, Jiao
AU - So, Chun Lung
AU - Lau, Newman
AU - Chung, Wing Yan Claire
AU - Leung, Kaoru
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was funded by the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/4/12
Y1 - 2021/4/12
N2 - Energy consumption differences of two cycling garments during short-term cycling were studied. Eleven amateur male cyclists participated in two cycling sessions over two days while wearing a newly designed compression cycling skinsuit (CCS) with stripes simulating kinesio tape, and a conventional compression garment (CG) (control garment). In each session, the participants performed a set of 12 short-term cycling combinations of three workloads and four cadences with either the CCS or the CG. Each combination lasted for 30 s. Garment pressure values at the thigh, oxygen consumption (VO
2) and heart rate (HR) were collected and analyzed. The CCS provided significantly different pressure values (P < 0.05) at two front muscles (rectus femoris and vastus lateralis) and one back muscle (biceps femoris) during all three workloads, and at a front middle muscle (vastus medialis) only during low-workload cycling. There was a statistically significant interaction between garment and workload (P < 0.05) on VO
2 when cycling was done at 120 rpm. The CCS required low VO
2 (P < 0.05) when the cycling combination of workload and cadence were reversed: either low-workload and high-cadence or high-workload and low-cadence cycling. Simultaneously, the CCS had a significant impact on HR during high-workload cycling (P < 0.05). In conclusion, the CCS’s higher compression power at the thigh muscles was found to be effective in energy consumption reduction during short-term cycling with low and high workload.
AB - Energy consumption differences of two cycling garments during short-term cycling were studied. Eleven amateur male cyclists participated in two cycling sessions over two days while wearing a newly designed compression cycling skinsuit (CCS) with stripes simulating kinesio tape, and a conventional compression garment (CG) (control garment). In each session, the participants performed a set of 12 short-term cycling combinations of three workloads and four cadences with either the CCS or the CG. Each combination lasted for 30 s. Garment pressure values at the thigh, oxygen consumption (VO
2) and heart rate (HR) were collected and analyzed. The CCS provided significantly different pressure values (P < 0.05) at two front muscles (rectus femoris and vastus lateralis) and one back muscle (biceps femoris) during all three workloads, and at a front middle muscle (vastus medialis) only during low-workload cycling. There was a statistically significant interaction between garment and workload (P < 0.05) on VO
2 when cycling was done at 120 rpm. The CCS required low VO
2 (P < 0.05) when the cycling combination of workload and cadence were reversed: either low-workload and high-cadence or high-workload and low-cadence cycling. Simultaneously, the CCS had a significant impact on HR during high-workload cycling (P < 0.05). In conclusion, the CCS’s higher compression power at the thigh muscles was found to be effective in energy consumption reduction during short-term cycling with low and high workload.
KW - Pressure
KW - heart rate
KW - oxygen consumption
KW - physiological effect
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U2 - 10.1177/00405175211006940
DO - 10.1177/00405175211006940
M3 - Journal article
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Textile Research Journal
JF - Textile Research Journal
ER -
