Physiological and performance adaptations to an in-season soccer camp in the heat: Associations with heart rate and heart rate variability

M Buchheit, S C Voss, Lars Nybo, Magni Mohr, S Racinais

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    Abstract

    The aim of the present study was to examine the associations between adaptive responses to an in-season soccer training camp in the heat and changes in submaximal exercising heart rate (HRex, 5-min run at 9 ¿km/h), postexercise HR recovery (HRR) and HR variability (HRV). Fifteen well-trained but non-heat-acclimatized male adult players performed a training week in Qatar (34.6¿±¿1.9°C wet bulb globe temperature). HRex, HRR, HRV (i.e. the standard deviation of instantaneous beat-to-beat R-R interval variability measured from Poincaré plots SD1, a vagal-related index), creatine kinase (CK) activity, plasma volume (PV) changes, and post-5-min run rate of perceived exertion (RPE) were collected at six occasions in temperate environmental conditions (22°C). Players also performed the yo-yo intermittent recovery test level 1 (Yo-Yo IR1) in the same environmental conditions (22°C), both at the beginning and at the end of the training week. Throughout the intervention, HRex and HRV showed decreasing (P¿
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalScandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
    Volume21
    Issue number6
    Pages (from-to)e477-e485
    Number of pages9
    ISSN0905-7188
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2011

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