Monitoring fatigue status with HRV measures in elite athletes: An avenue beyond RMSSD?

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Schmitt, Laurent ^a,b   Regnard, Jacques ^c   Millet, Grégoire P ^b  

^a Ecole Nationale des Sports de Montagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Heart rate variability; Monitoring; Overreaching; Physiologic; RMSSD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY POSTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FATIGUE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; SQUARE ROOT OF THE MEAN OF THE SUM OF THE SQUARES OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADJACENT NORMAL RR INTERVAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 84949564316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00343     Document Type: Article

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