Overtraining, heart rate variability and sports: A brief review

  • Gerson dos Santos Leite Professor colaborador no Mestrado e Doutorado em Ciências da Reabilitação da Uninoá
  • Daniel Pereira do Amaral Bolsista de Iniciação Cientí­fica na Universidade Nove de Julho - Uninove
  • Felipe Fedrizzi Donatto Doutorando pelo Laboratório de Metabolismo de Lipí­dios, Grupo de Biologia Molecular do Câncer, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Christiano Bertoldo Urtado Doutorando pela Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, CIPED, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Rogério Brandão Wichi Professor Doutor na Universidade Federal de Sergipe
  • Luciana Maria Malosá Sampaio Professora Doutora no Mestrado e Doutorado em Ciências da Reabilitação da Uninoá
Keywords: Overtraining, Heart rate variability, High performance sport, Autonomic nervous system

Abstract

This article presents as main objective a review about overtraining related to changes in heart rate variability in high performance athletes. The search included the documentary analysis, via the internet, of the publications contained in Pubmed and Google Scholar, submit articles related to the keyword "overtraining", specifically those related to heart rate variability thematic in high performance athletes. Few works have been found in the search. Work related to keywords, dominate the experimental models in its entirety and the longitudinal epidemiological characteristic shape as a principal. There is also, the predominance of aerobic and cyclic sports use in determining the State of overtraining to athletes associated with changes in heart rate variability. In this way, there seems to be a relationship ofthe change in heart rate variability with overtraining, but further studies are needed to confirm this relationship, especially in non-cyclical as the team sports.

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Published
2012-05-17
How to Cite
Leite, G. dos S., Amaral, D. P. do, Donatto, F. F., Urtado, C. B., Wichi, R. B., & Sampaio, L. M. M. (2012). Overtraining, heart rate variability and sports: A brief review. Brazilian Journal of Exercise Prescription and Physiology, 6(33). Retrieved from https://www.rbpfex.com.br/index.php/rbpfex/article/view/413
Issue
Vol. 6 No. 33 (2012)
Section
Scientific Articles - Original

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