Usefulness in Developing an Optimal Training Program and Distinguishing between Performance Levels of the Athlete's Body by Using of Thermal Imaging.

Teresa Kasprzyk-Kucewicz,Karolina Sieroń,Tadeusz Morawiec,Armand Cholewka,Agata Stanek,Agnieszka Szurko

doi:10.3390/ijerph17165698

Abstract

The goal of the training is to enable the body to perform prolonged physical effort without reducing its effectiveness while maintaining the body’s homeostasis. Homeostasis is the ability of the system to maintain, in dynamic balance, the stability of the internal environment. Equally as important as monitoring the body’s thermoregulation phenomena during exercise seems to be the evaluation of these mechanisms after physical effort, when the athlete’s body returns to physiological homeostasis. Restoring homeostasis is an important factor in body regeneration and has a significant impact on preventing overtraining. In this work we present a training protocol using a rowing ergometer, which was planned to be carried out in a short time and which involves working the majority of the athlete’s muscles, allowing a full assessment of the body’s thermal parameters after stopping exercise and during the body’s return to thermal equilibrium and homeostasis. The significant differences between normalized mean body surface temperature obtained for the cyclist before the training period and strength group as well as before and 10 min after training were obtained. Such observation seems to bring indirectly some information about the sportsperson’s efficiency due to differences in body temperature in the first 10 min of training when sweat does not play a main role in surface temperature. Nearly 1 °C drop of mean body temperature has been measured due to the period of training. It is concluded that thermovision not only allows you to monitor changes in body temperature due to sports activity, but also allows you to determine which of the athletes has a high level of body efficiency. The average maximum body temperature of such an athlete is higher (32.5 °C) than that of an athlete who has not trained regularly (30.9 °C) and whose body probably requires further training.

Highlights

The survival of the system under changing environmental conditions depends on its adaptation abilities, i.e., on the entirety of functional reactions and structural changes aimed at maintaining broadlyInt
The reference group was a group of strength athletes subjected to one-time strength training using a rowing ergometer
The strength athletes due to specifics of theirs training and their stabilized high-level progression in the physical effort has been treated as a reference

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The survival of the system under changing environmental conditions depends on its adaptation abilities, i.e., on the entirety of functional reactions and structural changes aimed at maintaining broadlyInt. The survival of the system under changing environmental conditions depends on its adaptation abilities, i.e., on the entirety of functional reactions and structural changes aimed at maintaining broadly. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 5698; doi:10.3390/ijerph17165698 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 5698 understood homeostasis. A good example of homeostatic and adaptive reactions that do not exceed the limits of proper regulation of the body’s functions is the body’s reaction to physical effort [1,2]

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