Figure 2.

High‐Intensity interval training protocol (HIIT). A 3‐min warm‐up at 50 W was followed by five 1‐min high‐intensity bouts at ~105–135% of participants’ peak power output (W peak) with 1.5‐min recovery at 30% Wpeak between bouts and a 2‐min cool‐down at 50 W to end. Each HIIT session was supervised, lasted 17.5 min, and was carried out on a stationary cycle ergometer.