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Article: Recreational hockey players exceed target heart rate.
- Article from:
- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- March 9, 2002
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2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hockey players are often told to "leave it all out on the ice," but a new study by Sanita Atwal and colleagues suggests that recreational players may be exercising too intensely and triggering dangerous cardiac responses.
Atwal and colleagues studied cardiac responses in 113 men over age 35 playing recreational hockey. After baseline cardiac risk factors were assessed, the subjects underwent holter electrocardiographic monitoring before, during and after at least one hockey game. The authors found that the maximum heart rate exceeded the target rate (calculated as 55-85% of the age-predicted maximum heart rate) ...