Post-exercise heart rate variability recovery after 800-m endurance run load among Cameroonian adolescent's males

Abstract

The 800-m (m) run is part of Physical Education classes in Cameroon, after which arrhythmias may occur during recovery. Hence, this study aimed at determining relationship between 800-m run loads on cardiac autonomic recovery among school adolescents.

Forty-two male adolescents (aged [17 ​± ​1] years) performed 800-m. Post-exercise heart rate variability (HRV) was recorded during 5-min (min) (HRV_5-min) and 15-min (HRV_15-min) in time: Standard deviation of normal to normal (SDNN); Root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD) and frequency domain (LH: Low frequency, HF: High frequency, TP: Total power). Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and blood lactate concentration (BLa) were measured after exercise. In HRV_5-min, RPE was associated with SDNN (r ​= ​−0.44, p ​< ​0.01) and RMSSD (r ​= ​−0.38, p ​< ​0.05). BLa was correlated with SDNN (r ​= ​−0.38, p ​< ​0.05) and RMSSD (r ​= ​−0.56, p ​< ​0.001) in the time-domain, LF (r ​= ​−0.64, p ​< ​0.001), HF (r ​= ​−0.58, p ​< ​0.001) and TP (r ​= ​−0.61, p ​< ​0.001) in frequency-domain. Moreover, RPE was correlated with LF (r ​= ​−0.44, p ​< ​0.01), TP (r ​= ​−0.49, p ​< ​0.01) while exercise duration with HF (r ​= ​−0.38, p ​< ​0.05). In HRV_15-min, BLa was correlated with RMSSD (r ​= ​−0.53, p ​< ​0.001) and SDNN (r ​= ​−0.68, p ​< ​0.001). RPE was negatively correlated SDNN (r ​= ​−0.53, p ​< ​0.01) and RMSSD (r ​= ​−0.44, p ​< ​0.01). BLa was associated with HF (r ​= ​−0.55, p ​< ​0.001), TP (r ​= ​−0.50, p ​< ​0.01) and RPE with LF (r ​= ​−0.51, p ​< ​0.01), HF (r ​= ​−0.50, p ​< ​0.01), TP (r ​= ​−0.49, p ​< ​0.01). In addition, exercise duration was negatively linked to HF (r ​= ​−0.36, p ​< ​0.05). This study outlined that in untrained adolescents an increase of 800-m loads is associated with a slow vagal indexes of HRV during the recovery.

Keywords

Heart rate variability / Recovery / 800-m load / Adolescents / Physical education classes

Ethical approval statement

Participants gave informed consent document signed by their parents/legal tutors. The study was approved by the University of Douala Institutional Ethic Committee for Human Research (N^O: 1177CEI-UDo/11/2017/T). The protocol was complied in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration as amended in Seoul in October 2008.

Authors’ contributions

MNJ: conceived the study, collected data, performed the data analysis, interpreted the results and drafted the manuscript. ET, LGG, WM: Collected datas, BLEC: performed the data analysis and drafted the manuscript, KFLP, CNO: performed data analysis, proofread English language, and revised manuscript for important intellectual content, GWR: drafted the manuscript; GLG, MMW: collected data; CAA, JG, BN, NOC: drafted the manuscript; ANPB, TA, supervised the study and draft the manuscript; BB, FR, MSH conceived et supervised the study.

Conflict of interest

We wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.

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