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Heart rate during bicycle ergometer exercise in watts per kilogram body weight of 12 and 13 year old boys

✍ Scribed by Kemper, H. C. G.


Book ID
104780907
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1972
Weight
423 KB
Volume
113
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-2917

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✦ Synopsis


The purpose of this study was: 1. To check wether subjects reached a constant heart rate (/h) during 6 rain constant work load (W) at 3 submaximal levels of intensity.

  1. To investigate the comparability of functional load in boys of same age with different body weight as response to external load in watts per kilogram body weight.

  2. To calculate the regression equation(s) with ~ as independent variable and /h as dependent variable.

Methods. External load: bicycle ergometer exercise, 3 discontinuous series of increasing loads, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 W/kg, duration 6 min each with intermittent rest periods of I min. Functional load: R-R interval (msec) from precordial E.C.G. Subjects: 12 and 13 year old schoolboys, n ----80, divided into body weight groups of 30, 35, 40, 50 and above 50 kg.

Results. 1. During the last four 30 sec periods of each workload no constant R-R interval could be estabiished; the decrease was significant at p ~ 0.001. 2. No significant differences (p > 0.05) in mean heart rate at 3 work loads could be proved between the 6 weight groups; the total variance is mainly explained by variance between subjects in same weight group (55%) and by variance with in subjects (35%).

  1. The l)r ~ 0 of all subjects, calculated from the regression equation was 2.0 W/kg body weight.