Abstract des Autors

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the heart rate (HR) response during a basketball game could be simulated by running on a treadmill. Three male subjects who were skilled and trained players at the university, played a basketball game in the gymnasium. Their HR was recorded at 10 s intervals during the game, and the blood lactate concentration (BLa) was measured every charged time-out and after the 1st half and 2nd half. On other days, the subjects performed a maximal running test on a treadmill and various exercise tests for simulating the game based on the %VO2max-HR relationship and the players' number of minutes of activity during the game. As a result, we developed a method to simulate the HR response during a basketball game. The mean HR for a subject while playing excluding the charged time-outs in the 1st half was 169.8+/-13.1 beats/min (mean+/-SD). The BLa during the 1st half changed between 3.18 and 5.30 mmol/l. The HR and BLa movement during the simulated test was extremely similar to that found during the game. From the present study it was concluded that HR during the game could be simulated by running on a treadmill. Verf.-Referat