Effect of Selected Recovery Interventions on Heart Rate Recovery of Athletes after High Intensity Endurance Run | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

The present study was undertaken with the purpose to analyses the effect of the selected recovery interventions on Heart rate recovery of the athletes after high intensity endurance run. For the purpose of the study a total of 10 endurance athletes were selected to act as participants. The recovery interventions selected for the study were active recovery, passive recovery, hyperoxic breathing, massage, contrast water immersion. The participants were administered with the recovery interventions after the cessation of the high intensity endurance run. The data on the blood lactate was collected at baseline i.e. 0 minutes and after 2 minutes, 4 minutes and 6 minutes. Repeated measure design was used in the study. The statistical technique applied to test the significance of the difference was One Way repeated measure ANOVA. The level of significance was 0.05. The result of the s study indicated that contrast water immersion and hyperoxic breathing were the most efficient recovery intervention for the heart rate recovery after high intensity interval training.