- Title
- Heart rate recovery in decision support for high performance athlete training schedules
- Creator
- Cornforth, David J.; Robinson, Dean J.; Spence, Ian; Jelinek, Herbert F.
- Relation
- Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management Vol. 9, p. 194-207
- Relation
- http://www.informingscience.org/Publications/2085?Source=%2FJournals%2FIJIKM%2FOverview
- Publisher
- Informing Science Institute
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This work investigated the suitability of a new tool for decision support in training programs of high performance athletes. The aim of this study was to find a reliable and robust measure of the fitness of an athlete for use as a tool for adjusting training schedules. We examined the use of heart rate recovery percentage (HRr%) for this purpose, using a two-phased approach. Phase 1 consisted of testing the suitability of HRr% as a measure of aerobic fitness, using a modified running test specifically designed for high performance team running sports such as football. Phase 2 was conducted over a 12-week training program with two different training loads. HRr% measured aerobic fitness and a running time-trial measured performance. Consecutive measures of HRr% during phase 1 indicated a Pearson's r of 0.92, suggesting a robust measure of aerobic fitness. During phase 2, HRr% reflected the training load and significantly increased when the training load was reduced between weeks 4 to 5. This work shows that HRr% is a robust indicator of aerobic fitness and provides an on-the-spot index that is useful for training load adjustment of elite performance athletes.
- Subject
- heart rate recovery; decision support; training schedule; high performance sport; aerobic fitness
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1294938
- Identifier
- uon:18910
- Identifier
- ISSN:1555-1229
- Rights
- This article is licensed to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. When you copy and redistribute this paper in full or in part, you need to provide proper attribution to it to ensure that others can later locate this work (and to ensure that others do not accuse you of plagiarism). You may (and we encourage you to) adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any non-commercial purposes. This license does not permit you to use this material for commercial purposes.
- Language
- eng
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