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Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists

OBJECTIVE: The present study seeks to explore the relationship between measures of cycling training on a given day and the heart rate variability (HRV) and mood states obtained the following morning. The association between HRV and mood state is also studied, as is the relationship between internal...

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Autores principales: Alfonso, Carla, Capdevila, Lluis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8976468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35378933
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13094
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description OBJECTIVE: The present study seeks to explore the relationship between measures of cycling training on a given day and the heart rate variability (HRV) and mood states obtained the following morning. The association between HRV and mood state is also studied, as is the relationship between internal and external measures of training. METHODS: During a 6-week period, five recreational road cyclists collected 123 recordings of morning HRV and morning mood, and 66 recordings of training power and rate of perceived exertion (RPE). Training power was used as an external measure of performance and RPE as an internal measure of performance. The HRV parameters used in the study were the mean of RR intervals (mean RR) and the standard deviation of all RR intervals (SDNN) as time domain analysis, and the normalized high frequency band (HFnu), normalized low frequency band (LFnu) and the ratio between low and high frequency bands, as frequency domain analysis. Mood was measured using a 10-point cognitive scale. RESULTS: It was found that the higher the training power on a given day, the lower the HFnu and the higher LF/HF were on the following morning. At the same time, results showed an inverse relationship between training and mood, so the tougher a training session, the lower the mood the following day. A relationship between morning HRV and mood was also found, so that the higher mean RR and HFnu, the more positive the mood (r = 0.497 and r = 0.420 respectively; p < 0.001). Finally, RPE correlated positively with external power load variables (IF: r = 0.545; p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Altogether, the results indicate a relationship between training of cyclists on a given day and their morning HRV and mood state on the following day. Mood and HRV also seem positively related. It is argued that developing a monitoring system that considers external and internal training loads, together with morning mood, could help understand the state of the individual, enabling feedback to athletes to facilitate the adaptation to training and to prevent problems associated with overtraining. However, more research is needed to further understand the association between the different variables considered.
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spelling pubmed-89764682022-04-03 Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists Alfonso, Carla Capdevila, Lluis PeerJ Neuroscience OBJECTIVE: The present study seeks to explore the relationship between measures of cycling training on a given day and the heart rate variability (HRV) and mood states obtained the following morning. The association between HRV and mood state is also studied, as is the relationship between internal and external measures of training. METHODS: During a 6-week period, five recreational road cyclists collected 123 recordings of morning HRV and morning mood, and 66 recordings of training power and rate of perceived exertion (RPE). Training power was used as an external measure of performance and RPE as an internal measure of performance. The HRV parameters used in the study were the mean of RR intervals (mean RR) and the standard deviation of all RR intervals (SDNN) as time domain analysis, and the normalized high frequency band (HFnu), normalized low frequency band (LFnu) and the ratio between low and high frequency bands, as frequency domain analysis. Mood was measured using a 10-point cognitive scale. RESULTS: It was found that the higher the training power on a given day, the lower the HFnu and the higher LF/HF were on the following morning. At the same time, results showed an inverse relationship between training and mood, so the tougher a training session, the lower the mood the following day. A relationship between morning HRV and mood was also found, so that the higher mean RR and HFnu, the more positive the mood (r = 0.497 and r = 0.420 respectively; p < 0.001). Finally, RPE correlated positively with external power load variables (IF: r = 0.545; p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Altogether, the results indicate a relationship between training of cyclists on a given day and their morning HRV and mood state on the following day. Mood and HRV also seem positively related. It is argued that developing a monitoring system that considers external and internal training loads, together with morning mood, could help understand the state of the individual, enabling feedback to athletes to facilitate the adaptation to training and to prevent problems associated with overtraining. However, more research is needed to further understand the association between the different variables considered. PeerJ Inc. 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8976468/ /pubmed/35378933 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13094 Text en © 2022 Alfonso and Capdevila https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Capdevila, Lluis
Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists
title Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists
title_full Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists
title_fullStr Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists
title_full_unstemmed Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists
title_short Heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists
title_sort heart rate variability, mood and performance: a pilot study on the interrelation of these variables in amateur road cyclists
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8976468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35378933
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13094
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