| （School of Physical Education，Liaoning Normal University，Dalian 116029，China) Abstract: By collating domestic and foreign literature on using heart rate recovery after exercise to evaluate aerobic capacity, the authors found that heart rate recovery after exercise has the research significance and value as an aero-bic capacity evaluating and monitoring tool: some heart rate recovery after exercise indexes are considered as hav-ing a high correlation with maximum oxygen uptake, can reflect the exerciser’s aerobic capacity; heart rate recovery after exercise is provided with high reproducibility and re-measurement reliability, will not change significantly due to a single exercise load, except systematic training. The research on evaluating aerobic capacity via heart rate re-covery after exercise will be conducive to optimizing the existing aerobic capacity evaluation method and boosting the progress of popularization of sports training research theories in national fitness.
Key words: sports physiology；heart rate recovery after exercise；aerobic capacity evaluation；public fitness；review |
