Training the inspiratory muscles improves running performance when carrying a 25 kg thoracic load in a backpack
Journal article
Authors | Faghy, Mark and Brown, Peter I. |
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Abstract | Load carriage (LC) exercise in physically demanding occupations is typically characterised by periods of low-intensity steady-state exercise and short duration, high-intensity exercise while carrying an external mass in a backpack; this form of exercise is also known as LC exercise. This induces inspiratory muscle fatigue and reduces whole-body performance. Accordingly we investigated the effect of inspiratory muscle training (IMT, 50% maximal inspiratory muscle pressure (PImax) twice daily for six week) upon running time-trial performance with thoracic LC. Nineteen healthy males formed a pressure threshold IMT (n = 10) or placebo control group (PLA; n = 9) and performed 60 min LC exercise (6.5 km h(-1)) followed by a 2.4 km running time trial (LCTT) either side of a double-blind six week intervention. Prior to the intervention, PImax was reduced relative to baseline, post-LC and post-LCTT in both groups (pooled data: 13 ± 7% and 16 ± 8%, respectively, p < .05) and similar changes were observed post-PLA. Post-IMT only, resting PImax increased +31% (p < .05) and relative to pre-IMT was greater post-LC (+19%) and post-LCTT (+18%, p < .05), however, the relative reduction in PImax at each time point was unchanged (13 ± 11% and 17 ± 9%, respectively, p > .05). In IMT only, heart rate and perceptual responses were reduced post-LC (p < .05). Time-trial performance was unchanged post-PLA and improved 8 ± 4% after IMT (p < .05). In summary, when wearing a 25 kg backpack, IMT attenuated the cardiovascular and perceptual responses to steady-state exercise and improved high-intensity time-trial performance which we attribute in part to reduced relative work intensity of the inspiratory muscles due to improved inspiratory muscle strength. These findings have real-world implications for occupational contexts. |
Keywords | Respiratory system; Respiratory muscle training; Fatigue; Load carriage |
Year | 2015 |
Journal | European Journal of Sport Science |
Journal citation | 16 (5), pp. 585-594 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 15367290 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2015.1071878 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17461391.2015.1071878 |
http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621200 | |
hdl:10545/621200 | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 14 Aug 2015 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 20 Dec 2016 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to European Journal of Sport Science |
Contributors | University of Derby |
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File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/92z33/training-the-inspiratory-muscles-improves-running-performance-when-carrying-a-25-kg-thoracic-load-in-a-backpack
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