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Monitoring Recovery: HR analysis in Sub maximal workloads and how to implement it into your training environment
Rob Rupf Sport Physiologist Canadian Sport Centre Ontario
SLIDE 2 Recovery
- Is a critical process for programming in high
volume sports
- Monitoring recovery and having the ability to
detect minute changes that can impact performance is critical to the ongoing development of the athlete.
SLIDE 3 Recovery
- Things that need to be done
– Nutrition – Sleep – Hydration
- But how do we monitor recovery
– Questionnaires – Heart Rate
SLIDE 4 Heart Rate
- Heart rate and recovery – WHY?
– Autonomic Nervous System
- Role in exercise
- Role in whole body control
- Influenced by various stress hormones
– Therefore can get an idea of stress placed on the body by measuring HR
SLIDE 5 Resting HR
– Is a good place to start analyzing ANS.
- Increased vagal tone or decreased sympathetic tone
means lowered HR.
- Increased sympathetic tone or decreased vagal tone
means increased HR.
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Resting HR and Training Performance
SLIDE 7 Potential Limitations of Resting HR
- Other peripheral causes and cardiac adaptations
can lead to increases in HR after initial adaptations
- While this is great for short term ventures (ie
training camps), longer term solutions may provide misleading information
- Exercise may provide greater opportunities to
provide longer term adaptations and determine health of recovery
– Submaximal exercise may provide a better indication
SLIDE 8 Sub Maximal HR Monitoring Systems
- Idea of using this monitoring system
– Understand how that athlete will train during that session – Understand the metabolic costs of training – Ability to help predict their performance??
- This will give us more immediate feedback on
each individual athlete.
– Athlete specific – And it will help us know how the athlete is feeling right at that moment
SLIDE 9 Protocol
– One at an easy pace (50 beats below max HR) – One at a moderate pace (30 beats below max HR)
- Incorporate this into the warm up
- Plot the results
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Right Shift – Good Response
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Left Shift – Poor Response
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Scenario 1 – Right Shift
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Performance Increase
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High Metabolic Cost?
SLIDE 15 Training Load Implications
- Training Load hits the target zone
- Increased cardiac load but similar lactate
values shows greater efficiency in stroke mechanics???
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Scenario 2 – Left Shift
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They still can hold performance
SLIDE 18 Breakdown in Technique??
Disproportionate Increase in SR
SLIDE 19 Physiological Cost
Disproportionate Increase in La and HR
SLIDE 20 Training Load Implications
- Training times can be maintained. It will just
hurt more.
- Maintaining these times might produce higher
than desired physiological loads.
– This may be primarily due to breakdown in stroke technique
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Sub Maximal Monitoring and Performance
??
SLIDE 22 Overview
- Using HR can help determine changes in
performance
– Both resting and submaximal
- Longer term chronic use of resting HR may be
limited
- Use of Submaximal testing may provide more
sport specific information on loading
– How much internal load that athlete will undergo? – Breakdown in stroke efficiency? – Prediction on future performance??
SLIDE 23
Questions ???