“…Such short duration, but high intensity, tests are used widely, not only to establish a subject's characteristic indices of power generation (e.g. peak and 30 s mean values), but also as a means of investigating aspects of tissue metabolic control (Boobis, Williams & Wootton, 1982;Jacobs, Tesch, Bar-Or, Karlsson & Dotan, 1983;Cheetham, Williams & Lakomy, 1985) and pulmonary gas exchange (Katch, 1973;Lamarra, Whipp, Ward & Wasserman, 1987).…”