Aerobic Fitness and Recovery Heart Rate Pattern in Indian Children 407 ... with higher basal HR had higher HRR1 and that accounted for the observed ... This study demonstrates that there is no relation between VO2max and HRR1 .... All data are expressed as mean and standard deviation, p value of independent sample ...
PhysiolPharmacol Pharmacol2015; 2015; 59(4) : 407–413 Indian JJ Physiol 59(4)
Aerobic Fitness and Recovery Heart Rate Pattern in Indian Children 407
Original Article Aerobic Fitness, Heart Rate Recovery and Heart Rate Recovery Time in Indian School Children Rajesh Jeniton Fernando 1*, K. Ravichandran and Mario Vaz 2 1
Department of Physiology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences
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Department of Physiology, St. John’s National Institute of Health Sciences
Abstract Data on aerobic fitness and heart rate recovery in children are limited. This study was done to evaluate the relation between them in Indian school going children. Three hundred children of 7 to 10.5 years were recruited and their aerobic fitness was predicted using modified Harvard’s step test (VO 2max ) and 20 meter shuttle test (VO 2peak ). The heart rate was monitored for 12 minutes post modified Harvard’s step test. The difference between the maximum and the 1 st minute HR was noted as HRR1 and the time taken to reach the resting heart rate was also recorded. VO 2max was inversely correlated with HRR1 (r = –0.64, p
