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SCUBAPRO-UWATEC HEARTRATE MEASUREMENT User Manual

Heart rate measurement during diving

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D E E P D O W N Y O U W A N T T H E B E S T
HEARTRATE MEASUREMENT FOR
BETTER WORKLOAD ASSESSMENT

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  • Page 1 D E E P D O W N Y O U W A N T T H E B E S T HEARTRATE MEASUREMENT FOR BETTER WORKLOAD ASSESSMENT...
  • Page 2 INTRODUCTION HEART RATE MEASUREMENT DURING DIVING TABLE OF CONTENTS The heart rate is an important indicator innovative technology integrated in most for arising stress. This has been known SCUBAPRO computers. for a long time. The sports industry has 03 - Heart rate measurement during diving reacted to this and is offering an array of To make this fitness booklet easy and...
  • Page 3 HEART RATE HEART RATE HOW THE HEART RESTING HEART RATE - RATE IS MEASURED HOW IS IT INFLUENCED? There are many ways to measure the to reconstruct exactly at what point the What exactly is the resting heart rate and heart rate.
  • Page 4 HEART RATE HEART RATE In combination with the maximum heart because basic environmental variables An Emergency situation is communicated rate, you can at least define the range within change and affect the body when you to the body by sensors and the central which the heart rate fluctuates.
  • Page 5 HEART RATE HEART RATE INFLUENCE OF BODY POSITION Let’s use the car metaphor again. In a car Even more strenuous is when you are in the (blood) certain passengers (oxygen and water with the equipment, which gives a ON THE HEART RATE strong water drag (much stronger than the metabolites) are to be quickly transported to the requested location (muscles).
  • Page 6 HEART RATE HEART RATE neutralizes the pressure gradient effective However, as already explained in the During exhalation it’s exactly the opposite. unlike the fluid-filled part the gas-filled part outside the water. previous chapter, the position within the Especially during exhaling on exertion, can be compressed, i.e.
  • Page 7 HEART RATE HEART RATE The more pronounced the vasoconstriction, filled lungs are being compressed more the dive the blood volume shifts towards the an undersupply of the tissue. A circulatory the greater the slowdown in heart rate. This and more the deeper the diver goes, which heart.
  • Page 8 FITNESS FITNESS WHY DOES EXCITEMENT MAKE additional advantage. It makes it relatively  A ccording to this rule of thumb, the heart easy to evaluate your own fitness level. One of a 20 year-old however could beat 200 THE HEART RACE reference point is the resting heart rate, times per minute under maximum stress.
  • Page 9 FITNESS FITNESS at an average heart rate of 105 beats per and mental strain as the difference gets minute if he wants to improve his endurance. smaller and smaller. Performing an analysis shortly after the dive on the basis of the  1 80 –...
  • Page 10 GLOSSARY GLOSSARY Adiposity - Obesity, fatness: excessive individual joint parts or tissue. Regular establishing various parameters of generated as intermediate stages proliferation or build-up of fatty tissue. customized exercise can prevent or cardiovascular function. or decomposition products during ease arthrotic problems. metabolic processes within the body.
  • Page 11 Dr. Tobias Dräger Studied biology, sports science, and sports economics, with a PhD. from the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (DSHS) in Performance Physiology. Head of Business Development at the diver emergency call center qua ed. CMAS dive instructor. Dr. Uwe Hoffmann Studied mathematics and sports science, with a PhD.

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