The purpose was to examine the acute effects of a HBO 2 treatment on (1) recovery following prolonged exercise and (2) aerobic performance in a trained population. Subjects were 6 male and 6 female, trained runners with mean VO2max values of 64.6 +/- 5.6 and 51.9 +/- 6.6 ml·g-1·min-1 respectively. Subjects were randomly assigned to four exercise-HBO2 conditions: (1) control, (2) exercise - no HBO2. (3) no exercise - HBO2, and (4) exercise - HBO2. Exercise was a 90-minute run at 75--80% of VO2max. HBO2 treatments consisted of breathing 95% O2 at 2.5 atm abs for 90 minutes. At the end of each condition, aerobic performance was assessed with a VO 2max test and by the oxygen cost of running on a treadmill at three submaximal velocities. Recovery was not enhanced following a single HBO 2 treatment at 2.5 atm abs for 90 minutes, nor did it alter submaximal or maximal running performance.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.21239 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | McGavock, Jonathan M. |
| Contributors | Montgomery, David L. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Physical Education.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001658624, proquestno: MQ50544, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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