ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2000
A review of the concept of the heart rate deflection point.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Heart Rate Variability-Derived Thresholds for Exercise Intensity Prescription in Endurance Sports: A Systematic Review of Interrelations and Agreement with Different Ventilatory and Blood Lactate Thresholds.Sports medicine - open · 2023Pooled it
- Exercise as an Intervention to Reduce Study-Related Fatigue among University Students: A Two-Arm Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial.PloS one · 2016Trial
- Lactic acidosis, potassium, and the heart rate deflection point in professional road cyclists.British journal of sports medicine · 2002Trial
- Heart rate thresholds as integrative biomarkers: a systems approach to exercise physiology and cardiovascular regulation.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- Relationships between sport-specific tests and their validity in predicting the time-motion profile in international taekwondo matches.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Validity of aerobic capacity indicators derived from the progressive specific taekwondo test for prescribing sport-specific interval training.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Pattern of the heart rate performance curve in maximal graded treadmill running from 1100 healthy 18-65 Years old men and women: the 4HAIE study.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- How Do Avalanche Dogs (and Their Handlers) Cope with Physical Exercise? Heart Rate Changes during Endurance in a Snowy Environment.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Pattern of the Heart Rate Performance Curve in Subjects with Beta-Blocker Treatment and Healthy Controls.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2021Article
- Cross-Validation of Ratings of Perceived Exertion Derived from Heart Rate Target Ranges Recommended for Pregnant Women.International journal of exercise science · 2020Article
- Heart Rate Performance Curve Is Dependent on Age, Sex, and Performance.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Heart-rate-based prediction of velocity at lactate threshold in ordinary adults.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2019Article
- Benefits of dietary supplements on the physical fitness of German Shepherd dogs during a drug detection training course.PloS one · 2019Article
- The effects of multi-stage exercise with and without concurrent cognitive performance on cardiorespiratory and cerebral haemodynamic responses.European journal of applied physiology · 2018Article
- Cerebral and Muscle Tissue Oxygenation During Incremental Cycling in Male Adolescents Measured by Time-Resolved Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.Pediatric exercise science · 2016Article
- Heart rate deflection point during incremental test in competitive agility border collies.Veterinary research communications · 2015Article
- Tracking changes in maximal oxygen consumption with the heart rate index in female collegiate soccer players.Journal of human kinetics · 2014Article
- Narita target heart rate equation underestimates the predicted adequate exercise level in sedentary young boys.Asian journal of sports medicine · 2013Article
- Minute ventilation and heart rate relationship for estimation of the ventilatory compensation point at high altitude: a pilot study.Extreme physiology & medicine · 2013Article
- Cardiorespiratory responses to stationary running in water and on land.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2013Article
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Abstract
The heart rate deflection point (HRDP) is a downward or upward change from the linear HR-work relationship evinced during progressive incremental exercise testing. The HRDP is reported to be coincident with the anaerobic threshold. In 1982, Conconi and colleagues suggested that this phenomenon could be used as a noninvasive method to assess the anaerobic threshold. These researchers developed a field test to assess the HRDP, which has become popularised as the 'Conconi test'. Concepts used to define and assess the anaerobic threshold as well as methodological procedures used to determine the HRDP are diverse in the literature and have contributed to controversy surrounding the HRDP concept. Although the HRDP may be assessed in either field or laboratory settings, the degree of HR deflection is highly dependent upon the type of protocol used. The validity of HRDP to assess the anaerobic threshold is uncertain, although a high degree of relationship exists between HRDP and the second lactate turnpoint. The HRDP appears to be reliable when a positive identification is made; however, not all studies report 100% reproducibility. Although the physiological mechanisms explaining the HRDP are unresolved, a relationship exists between the degree and direction of HRDP and left ventricular function. The HRDP has potential to be used for training regulation purposes. Clinically, it may be incorporated to set exercise intensity parameters for cardiac rehabilitation.
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