Abstract
Changes in Physiological Indicators during the first Bungee Jump
Highlights
The development of sports in the past century was intended to reduce health risks of athletes
Ten minutes after the bungee jump, the number of heart beats per minute dropped to almost normal levels, and 20 min after the jump, the heart rate was within the limits of normal values (Table 1)
The aim of this study was to determine the changes in the physiological parameters of subjects before, immediately before and after the first bungee jump, by monitoring the heart rate, blood pressure and perception of fear
Summary
The development of sports in the past century was intended to reduce health risks of athletes. Some sports would probably lose their main characteristics and interest of the public. For the risk to be a factor that makes a sport attractive there must be a real possibility for injury and the presence of death. According to this characteristics, the term extreme sports have become a universal name for adventure sports with serious health risks and possible fatal outcomes. Brymer (2005), defined extreme sports as independent leisure activities where the most likely outcome of a mismanaged mistake or accident is death. The free climbing, mountain biking, extreme skiing, parkour, free running, bungee jumping, rafting, free diving, cliff diving, hang gliding, ice climbing, surfing, B.A.S.E. jumping are the most known examples of extreme sports
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