The participants performed two (one for upper-body and one for lower-body) incremental tests to volitional exhaustion in a cycle-ergometer to determine the V⋅O2peak, maximum heart rate HRmax, MAP, V⋅O2OBLA, and POBLA). For lower-body (Excalibur, Lode, Netherlands) the initial load was set at 70 W. Each stage lasted 3 min and was increased 35 W per stage until the athlete could no longer continue or maintain 70 rpm for more than 5 s (Denadai et al., 2004)