Kar nekaj raziskav najdeš na spletu glede padca frekvence srčnega utripa po vadbi. Na Wikipediji pišejo, da raziskave sicer niso diagnostično obarvane, ampak bolj predikcijsko. Ugotovili so, da testiranci, katerih frekvenca srčnega utripa v roku minute po vadbi ni padla za več kot 12 utripov od najvišje frekvence na koncu vadbe, imajo večjo stopnjo umrljivosti in sicer 2,5-krat večjo, kot pri testirancih z normalnim padcem srčnega utripa.
From 1990 to 1993, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation measured the heart rate of 2,428 patients one minute after they finished walking on a treadmill machine for 21 minutes. In 1999, the foundation learned that 120, or 19 percent, of the 639 patients whose recovery heart rate one minute after exercise was fewer than 12 heartbeats per minute less than their exercise heart rate had died within six years of their treadmill test. During the same time frame, only 93, or 5 percent, of the 1,789 patients whose heart rate drop during the first minute after exercise was at least 12 heartbeats per minute died.
Kaj je normalni padec, kakšno vajo testiranec izvaja in po kakšni formuli računajo, pa je odvisno od njihove metodologije.
The New England Journal of Medicine pravi tako:
Your recovery rate number is your peak exercise heart rate minus your heart rate one minute after your exercise divided by 10. It’s three if your exercise heart rate is 140 heartbeats per minute and your recovery heart rate is 110 heartbeats per minute. Your fitness is excellent if your recovery rate number is at least four, good if your number is between three and four, fair if your number is between two and three, and poor if your number is less than two. Someone with an abnormal heart rate drop of 11 heartbeats per minute has a recovery rate number of 1.1.
VIR: http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/hear ... -9062.html
Skrtatka enačba se glasi:
HR max (ob koncu vadbe) - HR recovery (1 minuta po vadbi) : 10 = ?
Vrednosti:
4< = odlično
4-3 = prav dobro
3-2 = dobro
2> = slabo
1 = kritično
Meni po včerašnjih 10 minut teka in prvem intervalu (1.2km v tempu 3:45/km) pravi 3.9, po zadnjem intervalu pa 2.5.

Seveda so testiranci v tej raziskavi samo 21 minut hodili.
Run with your head, not with your feet.