Changes in sport performance of cross country skiers during high altitude training Cover Image

Změny sportovní výkonnosti ve vyšší nadmořské výšce u běžců na lyžích
Changes in sport performance of cross country skiers during high altitude training

Author(s): Jakub Opočenský, Jan Pernica, Jiří Suchý
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sports Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: high altitude; testing; lactate; heart rate; sport training;

Summary/Abstract: The article summarizes the results of the influence of 10 day stay and training in high altitude (1850 m ASL) on sport performance changes of cross country skiers at the level of aerobic, anaerobic and critical intensity load measured by heart rate (HR) and lactate concentrations in capillary blood. For verification was used a non-standardized running field tests (3 x 2km, with 10 minute rest). 7 subjects (deliberate sample, cross country skiers) performed the test five times altogether: initially in lowlands (480 m ASL), three times in high altitude (3rd, 6th and 9th day of stay) and the last 10 days after return to lowlands. HR and lactate levels at aerobic and anaerobic thresholds were higher in high altitude compared to lowlands during all tests, however, they did not change at critical intensity in either the places. Average values of HR and lactate levels achieved during the lowland test 10 days after returning from high altitude were significantly lower at all three intensities in comparison with initial data.

  • Issue Year: 8/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 101-108
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech