@AlexToerpel

Head of Diagnostics - German Swimming Federation; Altitude Training, S&C, Swimming, Physiology

Joined October 2019
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It’s out now. ❤️🏃‍♀️🏊🚴‍♂️ Voll im Takt – Ausdauertraining im Rhythmus des Herzschlags 1 Buch 📘 5 Kapitel 📑 224 Seiten 📄 >500 wiss. Quellen 💡 60 eigen erstellte Abbildungen 📊 Verfügbar überall dort wo es Bücher gibt. Viel Spaß beim Lesen. @G_Ron_Woods @BerndBerkhahn
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Incremental Swimming Test Provides Key Determinants of 200-m Front Crawl Race Performance. by Giannis Nikitakis, Michael Peyrebrune and @AToubekis @IJSPPjournal doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2026-0…

Incremental Swimming Test Provides Key Determinants of 200-m Front Crawl Race Performance

Purpose: This study examined whether lactate-derived indices were associated with 200-m front crawl race performance. Methods: Twenty-eight highly trained male swimmers (18.0 [3.2] y) performed a...

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Tadej Debevec@DebevecTadejSep 22
Must read perspective in @japplphysiol by @wattsnow & @dr_o_girard Standing on the shoulders of giants: what have we learned about altitude training since the pre-1968 Olympic era? journals.physiology.org/doi/…

Standing on the shoulders of giants: what have we learned about altitude training since the...

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The Olympic Games™
@OlympicsAug 15
🚨 WORLD RECORD for 19-year-old Johannes Liebmann! 🇩🇪 The German swimmer becomes the first man ever to swim the 1500m freestyle under 14:30, clocking in 14:26.79 to become European Champion at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships in Paris! #WorldRecord #RoadtoLA28 #EuroAquatics
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Paul Gastin@PaulGastinApr 12
Pleased to publish a 25y update to my 2001 review: Anaerobic and Aerobic Energy System Contribution During Maximal Exercise (Sports Med) Synthesising 102 studies of energy system interplay during maximal efforts 🔗 rdcu.be/fcXUu #ExercisePhysiology @hareshsuppiah
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A massive team effort to produce this joint ESSA & ACSM expert statement on “Physical Activity and Exercise Intensity Terminology”, which has been published in both JSaMS jsams.org/article/S1440-2440… & journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/f…   Thread 🧵👇🏽
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Now ahead of print: Life in the Fast Lane: Performance Predictions for the Newest 50-m Events on the Olympic Games Swimming Schedule, by Cormac Powell, David B. Pyne, Emmet Crowley, and Iñigo Mujika doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2025-0…

Life in the Fast Lane: Performance Predictions for the Newest 50-m Events on the Olympic Games...

Purpose: We aimed to (1) generate performance predictions for the new 50-m backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events, recently added to the Olympic Games swimming schedule, for both the Singap...

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Now ahead of print: Perspectives of World-Class Endurance Coaches on the Evolution of Athlete Training and Performance, by Øyvind Sandbakk and colleagues. doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2025-0…
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Exercise Intensity Terminology is a bit of a mess 😵‍💫 Our attempt to try & summarise some of the different approaches, and make some recommendations going forward, has finally been published in both MSSE: bit.ly/4nT7Pq5 & JSaMS: bit.ly/46U7ptq.
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World Aquatics
@WorldAquatics12 Apr 2025
🚨 WOOOOORLD RECORD!🚨 🇩🇪 Lukas Martens delivers a historic swim at the Swim Open Stockholm, clocking an astonishing 3:39.96 in the Men’s 400m Freestyle! 💥🔥
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Olivier Girard@dr_o_girard20 Feb 2025
The Benefits of Research-Embedded Training Camps in Sport Sciences in: International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance - Ahead of print journals.humankinetics.com/v…

The Benefits of Research-Embedded Training Camps in Sport Sciences

Background: Sport scientists aim to enhance athletic performance by developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based strategies. However, a common challenge to maximize sport science’s impact...

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🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 First publication of 2025 with David Pyne, @EmmetCrowley & @inigomujika_en is now online in @IJSPPjournal doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2024-0… Summary thread below 👇
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Intensitätssteuerung und Trainingszonen 📈📊🚦🏊 Zwei häufig diskutierte Themenfelder in der Wissenschaft sowie in der Sportpraxis. Zusammen mit @BerndBerkhahn und @G_Ron_Woods haben wir den aktuellen Stand beider Perspektiven vereint dargestellt und ins Schwimmen transferiert.
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Der Beitrag ist in der Zeitschrift Leistungssport veröffentlicht, Ausgabe 01/2025. Eine noch umfassendere und vertiefende Darstellung der Themenfelder findet Ihr im aktuellen Buch >>Voll im Takt – Ausdauertraining im Rhythmus des Herzschlags<< m-vg.de/riva/shop/article/24…

Voll im Takt – Ausdauertraining im Rhythmus des Herzschlags

Herzfrequenz messen, Training individualisieren, Bestleistung erzielen

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Tadej Debevec@DebevecTadej13 Jan 2025
New in SJMSS by @DrMJoyner Training Elite Athletes: 50 Years of Thinking About Practice and Research for Endurance Sports onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Training Elite Athletes: 50 Years of Thinking About Practice and Research for Endurance Sports

This essay summarizes and integrates my experiences and observations—starting in the middle 1970s—as an athlete, scientist interested in human performance, biomedical researcher, and “expert,” who...

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In my opinion, this is still one of the leading paper that summarizes the scientific status of altitude training and enables a good transfer to high performance sports practice 🏔️🏃🏊🚴🚣
Inigo Mujika (En)@inigomujika_en30 Oct 2024
Free access to our 2019 paper "Contemporary Periodization of Altitude Training for Elite Endurance Athletes: A Narrative Review" with @TStellingwerff @AvishSharma5 link.springer.com/article/10…
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Repeated-sprint training in hypoxia: A review with 10 years of perspective ; with @wattsnow @AntoineRaberin @GregoireMillet1 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Repeated-sprint training in hypoxia: A review with 10 years of perspective

Over the past decade, numerous studies have investigated an innovative “live low-train high” approach based on the repetition of short (<30 s) “all-out” sprints with incomplete recoveries in hypoxi...

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Thomas Kurschilgen@ThKurschilgen8 Aug 2024
Die Olympische Entscheidung im Freiwasserrennen der Frauen ist gefallen. Gold und Silber gehen an zwei Athletinnen die von @BerndBerkhahn betreut werden. #Rouwendaal (NED) + #Johnson (AUS). Gratulation an das internationale Trainingszentrum in #Magdeburg. #OlympicGames
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Adressaten: Trainer, Sportler, wiss. Personal (u.a. Uni, Hochschulen, OSP), Sportwissenschaftler, Studierende, (Sport)Mediziner, weitere Interessierte am Themenfeld
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After reading a few chapters of @inigomujika_en book, I have to say it's great. What a contribution from all the authors to summarize the current state of science in 33 chapters and show the relevance for practitioners in less than 10 pages per chapter. Thank you for this book!
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