BPK 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stationary Bicycle, Bicarbonate Buffer System, Respiratory Quotient
26 Aug 2016
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In activities where the body mass must be moved against the force of gravity (e. g. walking, running, cycling etc. ) When the body mass is largely supported (e. g. cycle ergometer) units of l/min are more appropriate. Good measure of cardiorespiratory fitness (i. e. functional capacity of the circulation) Screening of people for various tasks: work, sport etc. Clinical evaluation of patients with cardiovascular or pulmonary disease. Methodological criteria for administering a maximum oxygen uptake test. Continuous work is performed at gradual increasing intensities. Thus, the approach of functional limitations should be detectable with sufficient discriminatory accuracy. Work intensity should be selected so that the subject will be exhausted in 7-10minutes after the warm up. The work rate should be sufficiently heavy so that the oxygen uptake does not entirely correspond with the energy requirement of the workload (non steady state work) The work rate must be measureable and reproducible. Test conditions must be such that are results are comparable and repeatable.
