A Study To Locate The Difference Between Active And Passive Recovery After Strenuous Workout

Abstract

Exercise recovery involves a number of Post-exercise Steps that are essential for any exercise regime, regardless of fitness level, the type of physical activity or the exercise intensity. Exercise recovery does not take long or require much effort, but it is often neglected. The exercise recovery is mainly of two types one is Active Recovery and the other is passive Recovery. Active Recovery is the term used for cooling down (with slow jogging, stretching etc. ) after a high intensive work out and Passive Recovery is Stopping dead, doing nothing again until he head out on his next run a couple of days later. The results of a study suggest that an active recovery of 3 minutes between High intensity, short duration exercise bouts significantly increase peak power and average power compared to a passive recovery, irrespective of changes in blood lactate levels. Several research studies have been conducted in this specific area in the international level but the effort is supposed to be weaker with respect to Indian Sport Scientists. Feeling the importance of recovery in the sport field and considering its application in a wider range or rather as an effort to make it much more acceptable to the sport society the investigator under the guidance of her supervisor envisaged to conduct the study entitled “A study to locate the difference between active and passive recovery after strenuous workout.” The subjects for the present study were 20 male trained athletes from Howrah and Purba Medinipur districts of West Bengal who were selected randomly from a coaching camp. In the present study, the investigator has considered the following things such as their – Age, sex, Height of the subject, Resting Heart Rate, Post Exercise Heart Rate, After Active Recovery Heart Rate, After Passive Recovery Heart Rate. The scholar made the athletes to run 600 mts. and recorded their Heart Rate just after completion of the workout and also recorded their HR after one minute of complete rest the same procedure was repeated but in between the athletes were directed to perform active recovery i.e. slow jogging. From data analysis it appears that the Active recovery is superior in comparison to the Passive recovery because the recovery range is greater. Thus the scholar arrived at the explicit conclusion that active recovery is better than passive recovery between exercise bouts or after strenuous workout.