Cardiorespiratory Responses to a 20-Minutes Shallow Water Tabata-Style Workout

Cardiorespiratory Responses to Shallow Water Exercise: A Sex Comparison

“…ranging from sustained submaximal and maximal exertions to a high-intensity workout comprised of brief "all-out" efforts. Participants were immersed to axillary level for all testing with water temperature between 28.3 and 28.9 o C. Select physiological data in the present study explicit to our female subjects has previously been reported (D'Acquisto et al, 2015;Miller et al, 2015). We replicated methods from these previous studies with male volunteers, which positioned us to explore sex-specific cardiorespiratory responses associated with SWE and to specifically address aforementioned hypotheses.…”

“…blood lactate, V O2) but provided little insight into relative cardiorespiratory load. More recently, D'Acquisto et al 2015and Miller et al (2015) have reported absolute and relative cardiorespiratory responses to a continuum of sustained low to moderate-intensity exercise efforts and "all-out" intervals performed in shallow water in a sample of young, physically active females. The broad range of exercise efforts tested by D'Acquisto et al (2015) and Miller et al (2015) are suitable for moderate-intensity continuous training (MIC) or HIIT programs.…”

Physiological and Psychophysical Aspects of Shallow Water Exercise

“…Approximately 1 to 2 weeks following a familiarization session, participants underwent body composition assessment followed by physiological testing during resting, submaximal, and maximal SWE efforts (Experiment I). Two days to 2 weeks later, volunteers underwent physiological testing while resting and performing a high-intensity interval SWE workout (Experiment II; Miller et al, 2015). All SWE efforts were performed with participants immersed to axillary level.…”

“…Participants completed a familiarization session in which they were instructed on basic principles of performing SWE and the use of Borg's 6-20 RPE scale to selfregulate exercise intensity based on a prescribed RPE (RPE-effort guided model; Experiment I; present article) and estimation protocol (Experiment II; Miller et al, 2015). In addition, they practiced performing a variety of SWEs under the supervision of an instructor.…”

“…Furthermore, VO 2 and HR peak findings from Experiment I (present study) were used in Experiment II. Miller, D'Acquisto, D'Acquisto, Roemer, and Fisher (2015) measured cardiorespiratory responses and perceived exertion in the same subjects while they performed a Tabata-style SWE, a form of high-intensity interval exercise adapted from the research work of Izumi Tabata (Tabata et al, 1997).…”