ANALYSIS OF RESTING HEART RATE RECORDED BEFORE A MAXIMAL EXERCISE TEST

Authors

  • André Luiz Teixeira Hospital e Maternidade Therezinha de Jesus (HMTJ) da Faculdade de Ciências Médica e da Saúde (SUPREMA), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil
  • Eveline Moreira Moraes Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Escola de Educação Física e Desportos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
  • Hugo Barbosa Alves Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Escola de Educação Física e Desportos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
  • Jorge Roberto Perrout de Lima Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Laboratório de Avaliação Motora (LAM), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13037/ras.vol13n45.2958

Keywords:

Heart rate, exercise, autonomic nervous system.

Abstract

This study aimed to verify the validity of the value for resting heart rate (RHR) recorded immediately beforea maximal exercise test. For convenience, 23 university women (21.8±2.8 years, 57.9±10.2 kg, 163.6±5.5cm) healthy and with previous experience in this test were enrolled. All subjects performed randomly twovisits to the laboratory, one only to record the RHR and another followed to a test of maximal effort,using the treadmill Bruce protocol. It was applied the Student t-test for paired data with significance levelof p<0.05. The results showed significant differences in RHR values between the control day (68.2±7.5bpm) and pretest day (71.9±7.8 bpm) (p=0.003) with an average increase of 4 bpm, ranging from -7 to17 bpm. Then, we conclude that the values of RHR unchanged when recorded before a maximal exercisetest in young university women students.

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Published

2015-09-29

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 45 (2015): Revista de Atenção à Saúde

Section

ARTIGOS ORIGINAIS

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