The purpose of our study was to compare, whether there was meaningful difference between exercise recovery, sauna bath, and massage as recovery means. To accomplish this purpose, we compared the effects of 3 recovery methods on lactate removal and ana...
The purpose of our study was to compare, whether there was meaningful difference between exercise recovery, sauna bath, and massage as recovery means. To accomplish this purpose, we compared the effects of 3 recovery methods on lactate removal and anaerobic power after maximal anaerobic exercise. The subjects were 8 high school soccer player[16±0.5yr, 172.7±7.2cm, 64.4±6.4kg] 3 experiments were repeatedly done with those same subjects : one for exercise recovery, the 2nd for sauna boath, and the last for massage. The intervals between 3 experiments were 1 week.
After 5min of warm-up subjects were performed two wingate test, followed by 25min of recovery. Heart rate of every 5 second were measured during experiments with Polar system. Blood was samped at rest, after two wingate test, every 5min during recovery and immediately analyzed with Lactate analyzer(YSI 1500L)
Data are presented as mean±SE. Lactate and heart rate values obtained at rest, after 2 Wingate test, and in every 5min during recovery were compared between 3 recovery methods. Also the values obtained after 1st, 2nd, 3rd wingate test were compared between 3 methods. Oneway-ANOVA was done for comparing the values between 3 recovery methods. An α of .05 was used for throughout.
The results of study were as follows; The lactate values in 10min, 15min, 20min, 25min during recovery were appeared significantly between exercise recovery and massage recovery. The decrement of lactate values in 15min, 20min, 25min after exercise were appeared significantly between exercise recovery and massage recovery. There was no statistical significance in lactate values between exercise recovery and sauna recovery . But the lactate values during recovery was the lowest and the decrement lactate values during recovery was the fastest in exercise recovery. There was no statistical significance in anaerobic power after recovery between 3 methods.
With these results, we could conclude that exercise recovery was effective method for lactate removal, and that sauna bath was also meaningful method, but not the massage recovery. We could also find that, even if exercise could be started with comparatively high level of blood lactate, maximal anaerobic performance could be fully reached.