%0 Journal Article %T ¨¦ poss¨ªvel determinar a economia de corrida atrav¨¦s do teste progressivo at¨¦ a exaust£¿o? %A Bertuzzi %A R£¿mulo C¨¢ssio de Moraes %A Bueno %A Salom£¿o %A Pasqua %A Leonardo Alves %A Batista %A Mauro Benites %A Roschel %A Hamilton %A Acquesta %A Fernanda Michelone %A Kiss %A Maria Augusta Pedutti Dal'Molin %A Serr£¿o %A J¨²lio Cerca %A Ugrinowitsch %A Carlos %A Tricoli %A Valmor %J Revista Brasileira de Educa£¿£¿o F¨ªsica e Esporte %D 2010 %I Escola de Educa??o F¨ªsica e Esporte da Universidade de S?o Paulo (EEFEUSP) %R 10.1590/S1807-55092010000300008 %X the purpose of the present study was to investigate the association between running economy (re) and the slope of the regression line obtained as the individual relationship between oxygen uptake and the corresponding intensity in the incremental test (ecinclina). sixteen recreational long-distance runners (age 32 ¡À 7 years, body mass 70,0 ¡À 6.7 kg, height 173.3 ¡À 5.0 cm, vo2max 57.9 ¡À 5.8 ml¡¤kg-1¡¤min-1) performed a progressive incremental test and two submaximal workload tests (at 12 km¡¤h-1 and 90% second ventilatory threshold) to determine the re. there was significant correlation between ecinclina and re measured at 12 km¡¤h-1 (r = 0.49; p = 0.054) and at 90% second ventilatory threshold (r = 0.55; p = 0.027). in addition, ecinclina also was negatively correlated with peak blood lactate (r = -0.75; p = 0.001) and peak respiratory exchange rate (r = -0.80; p < 0.001). these findings suggest that ecinclina would be an alternative parameter employed to determine the endurance performance in recreational long-distance runners. %K maximal oxygen uptake %K blood lactate %K respiratory exchange rate. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-55092010000300008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en