The kinetics of post-exercise heart rate (HR) and oxygen consumption (EPOC) was studied in 10 elite cyclists subjected to four laboratory cycle ergometer maximal exercises lasting 30, 90, 180 or 360 s. Heart rate and oxygen uptake (VO2) were recorded over a period of 6 min after the exercise. By applying the logit transformation to the recorded variables and relating them to the decimal logarithm of the recovery time, uniform single-phase courses of changes were shown for both variables in all subjects and exercises. This enabled computing half-recovery times (t1) for both variables. Half-time for VO2 negatively correlated with square root of exercise duration (within-subject r=–0.629, p<0.001), the total post-exercise oxygen uptake till t1 was thus constant irrespectively of exercise intensity. The method is simple and enables reliable comparisons of various modes of exercise with respect to the rate of recovery.
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- biologické modely MeSH
- cvičení MeSH
- cyklistika MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
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- kinetika MeSH
- kosterní svaly metabolismus MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- logistické modely MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- obnova funkce MeSH
- spotřeba kyslíku MeSH
- srdeční frekvence MeSH
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- dospělí MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
