In competitive or preventive sport the recommendations for endurance training intensity are often only based on a computed, age-predicted heart rate and not on a maximal heart rate, which is measured during a maximal exercise test (Hfmax).
In order to examine the training relevance of these parameters, we analysed retrospectively 890 ergometer tests of healthy probands and probands, who suffered from cardiovascular diseases, which all got exercise, regarding the maximal und training-relevant submaximal values during exercise. The stick sample was pulled out > 10000 treadmill or cycle tests, provided in 10 years, divided in women (n = 435) and men (n = 455).
Only 17 % of our probands had a heart rate performance curve with a “levelling off”, recognized in the sense of a physiological limit value. 61 % had a linear performance curve during the whole exercise.
The Hfmax was dominant affected by age, but it accounted only for 65 % of the variability. It was also influenced by type of exercise, cardiac diseases or drugs, but not by gender. To the aerobic and anaerobic thresholds and maximum lactate existed statistically provable, but no close correlations.
Recapitulatory training guidelines in competitive and rehabilitation sport should not be based on a computed heart rate.
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In competitive or preventive sport the recommendations for endurance training intensity are often only based on a computed, age-predicted heart rate and not on a maximal heart rate, which is measured during a maximal exercise test (Hfmax).
In order to examine the training relevance of these parameters, we analysed retrospectively 890 ergometer tests of healthy probands and probands, who suffered from cardiovascular diseases, which all got exercise, regarding the maximal und training-relevant s...
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