Heart rate recovery after aerobic and anaerobic tests: is there an influence of anaerobic speed reserve?

DEL ROSSO, SEBASTIÁN; NAKAMURA, FABIO Y.; BOULLOSA, DANIEL A.

JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Lugar: Abingdon; Año: 2017 vol. 35 p. 820 - 827

0264-0414

The present study assessed if differences in the metabolic profile, inferred from the anaerobic speed reserve (ASR), would influence the dynamics of heart rate recovery (HRR) after two modes of exercise. Thirty-nine physical education students (14 females and 25 males) volunteered for this study. Participants carried out three separate testing sessions to assess maximal sprinting speed (MSS, 1st session), repeated sprint ability (RSA, 2nd session) and maximal aerobic speed (MAS) using the Université of Montreal Track Test (UMTT, 3rd session). ASR was defined as the difference between MSS and MAS. Heart rate was continuously registered throughout the tests and during the 5-min post-test recovery. To evaluate the influence of ASR on post-exercise, HRR comparisons between ASR-based groups [high ASR vs. low ASR] and sex groups (males vs. females) were performed. Significant differences (P