Introduction
As an appropriate stimulus for improving In many team sports, practitioners and rehabilitation staff will choose training practices that simultaneously reduce musculoskeletal load while promoting appropriate central and peripheral stimuli. The use of cycle-based HIIT has been used with team sport athletes over periods of 2–6 weeks to improve intermittent running and cycling performance (Jones et al. Running and cycling at the same relative intensity evoke distinct physiological and perceptual responses that suggest different stimuli could be applied when adopted by the same athlete (Carter et al. 