After familiarization with all test procedures, athletes were submitted to a physical fitness test battery, before and after 4 weeks of training, consisting of: (a) an upper-body cycle-ergometer graded exercise test, where peak oxygen uptake (V⋅O2peak), maximal aerobic power (MAP), maximum heart rate (HRmax), and power (POBLA) and oxygen uptake (V⋅O2OBLA) at onset blood lactate accumulation (OBLA) were determined; (b) a lower-body cyclergometer graded exercise test, where V⋅O2peak, MAP, HRmax, POBLA, and V⋅O2OBLA were determined; (c) four upper-body