Inspiratory muscle training and its effects on exercise performance
Item
- Title
- Inspiratory muscle training and its effects on exercise performance
- Author(s)
- Baggott Grant
- Abstract
- During the last decade studies show that respiratory muscles respond and adapt to exercise in ways similar to skeletal muscles. Because of the potential for respiratory muscle fatigue, in both health and disease, interest in the adaptability of respiratory muscles to endurance-type exercise has grown significantly as a result. To date there has been relatively few osteopathic studies carried out investigating the effects of inspiratory muscle training on exercise performance. The Astrand Cycle Test is used to provide a prediction of maximal oxygen consumption based upon the performer's heart-rate response at a given power level or submaximal oxygen consumption. Predicted VO2max values were recorded in twenty asymptomatic subjects who underwent four weeks of inspiratory muscle training. One group of ten subjects carried out inspiratory muscle training using the Ultrabreathe Respiratory Trainer. The other group carried out Pursed-Lip Breathing. Following the training regimen re-assessment of predicted VO2max, using the Astrand Cycle Test, was carried out. No significant differences were found between pre- and post- values in either predicted VO2max or submaximal heart rate (P>0.05). This study provided no evidence that inspiratory muscle training affected exercise capacity as measured by the Astrand Cycle Test.
- presented at
- British College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Date Accepted
- 2002
- Date Submitted
- 1.11.2003 00:00:00
- Type
- undergraduate_project
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 81
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 12980
- Inst-Identifier
- 1076
- Keywords
- Exercise,Respiratory System,Muscles,Ultrabreathe Respiratory Trainer,Osteopathy
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Baggott Grant, “Inspiratory muscle training and its effects on exercise performance”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 24, 2025, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/1354