Abstract

The aim of this study was to characterize aerobic capacity of sports aerobic athletes with different level of training during continuous increasing exercise. Lithuanian women aerobic gynmasts (15 subjects) participated in this study. According to performance (training) level they were divided in two groups: well trained (WT) and moderately trained (MT). All the subjects underwent maximum physical exercise (increasing run) with continuous intensity on the treadmill. During the treadmill test the respiratory gas exchanges parameters, heart rate and blood lactate concentration were measured. Respiratory gas exchange was established using telemetric equipment, heart rate was constantly registered every five seconds by pulse measuring instrument, lactate concentration in the blood (Kulis et al., 1988) was established by means of the Eksan-G Universal (Lithuania) analyser using a membrane with ferment lactatoxidase. The results suggested that maximum and submaximum respiratory gas exchange and HR values ofrepresentatives of sports aerobic during the continuous incremental treadmill test were similar (p>0.05) in groups of athletes with different level of training. Verf.-Referat