Responses of blood lactate concentration, heart rate, and blood pressure using three active recovery methods versus passive recovery after an exhaustive exercise in young elite wrestlers

ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The recovery process should be optimized to enable performance capabilities to be restored to the baseline as soon as possible. METHODS: The main goal of this study was to determine the effects of different recovery methods vs. passive mode, on heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), and blood lactate concentration (LA) in young wrestlers after an exhausting intensive exercise. Sixteen cadet and junior elite freestyle wrestlers (mean±SD: age۱۷.۴۴±۱.۱۵ years, BMI ۲۲.۱±۱.۶۸ kg/m۲, body mass ۶۶.۷±۸.۴kg, and ۴.۴±۱.۶ years of wrestling training experience) volunteered to participate in this study. The recovery protocol was performed in ۴ consecutive weeks, using the counterbalance method. The recovery session consisted of ۱۵ minutes (jogging, jogging, and static stretching, jogging, and dynamic stretching) and passive recovery among a control group. All data are reported as mean ± standard deviation (SD), with ۹۵% confidence intervals (۹۵%CI). The Shapiro-Wilks test indicated normal distributions, and consequently, parametric tests were performed. Equality of variances was checked by the Levene’s test. RESULTS: As a result, there were not any significant differences between three active recovery methods and passive mode for any of the dependent variables (P

Keywords:

Recovery , Blood lactate , Wrestling