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. 2023 Jun 27;123(12):2755–2770. doi: 10.1007/s00421-023-05256-7

Table 3.

Modeled metabolic energy contributions up to exhaustion from the two intermittent test protocols (P2 and P3) respectively, reported as amount of energy (kJ) and as percentage of total metabolic energy output

Metabolic energy system Energy contributions during P2 Energy contributions during P3
[kJ] % [kJ] %
Alactic 30.4 ± 5.7 3.3 ± 0.4 41.9 ± 8.0 4.4 ± 0.6
Lactic 29.2 ± 2.5 3.1 ± 0.3 33.7 ± 3.7 3.6 ± 0.3
Aerobic 873 ± 73 93.6 ± 0.5 872 ± 78 92.0 ± 0.8
Anaerobic 59.6 ± 7.3 6.4 ± 0.5 75.6 ± 10.4 8.0 ± 0.8

The first 100 s of passive rest in each protocol was omitted (see Data Collection)