Graded exercise test with or without load carriage similarly measures maximal oxygen uptake in young males and females

• Zhenhuan Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenhuan Wang, Muhammed M. Atakan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Key Lab of General Administration of Sport, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia

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• Muhammed M. Atakan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenhuan Wang, Muhammed M. Atakan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia, Division of Nutrition and Metabolism in Exercise, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3196-6345

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• Xu Yan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia, College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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• Hüseyin H. Turnagöl,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Nutrition and Metabolism in Exercise, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

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• Honglei Duan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Key Lab of General Administration of Sport, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Li Peng

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 804455169@qq.com

  Affiliation Key Lab of General Administration of Sport, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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