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Post‐exercise heart rate variability of endurance athletes after different high‐intensity exercise interventions
Author(s) -
Kaikkonen P.,
Rusko H.,
Martinmäki K.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.575
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1600-0838
pISSN - 0905-7188
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2007.00728.x
Subject(s) - medicine , athletes , heart rate , physical therapy , endurance training , exercise intensity , physical medicine and rehabilitation , exercise physiology , sports medicine , cardiology , blood pressure
Methodological problems have limited the number of studies on heart rate variability (HRV) dynamics immediately after exercise. We used the short‐time Fourier transform method to study immediate (5 min) and slow (30 min) recovery of HRV after different high‐intensity exercise interventions. Eight male athletes performed two interval interventions at 85% and 93% (IV 85 and IV 93 ) and two continuous interventions at 80% and 85% (CO 80 and CO 85 ) of the velocity at VO 2max (vVO 2max ). We found no increase in high frequency power (HFP), but low frequency (LFP) and total power (TP) increased ( P <0.05) during the first 5 min of the recovery after each intervention. During the 30‐min recovery, HFP, LFP and TP (1) increased slowly toward resting values, but HFP remained lower ( P <0.01) than at rest, (2) were lower ( P <0.05) after IV 93 and CO 85 when compared with IV 85 and CO 80 , respectively and (3) were lower ( P <0.01) after CO 85 when compared with IV 85 . HRV recovery was detected during the immediate recovery after interventions. Increased exercise intensity resulted in lower HRV both in interval and in continuous interventions. In addition, when interval and continuous interventions were performed at a similar workload, HRV was lower after continuous intervention.