Key result
The use of a Perceived Readiness scale for self-determined recovery yielded similar performance to a work-to-rest ratio strategy but with significantly shorter recovery times.
Why the study?
Does the concurrent use of RPE and PR scales improve interval training performance and recovery time in competitive male runners compared to HR and WR strategies?
Does the concurrent use of RPE and PR scales improve interval training performance and recovery time in competitive male runners compared to HR and WR strategies?
The concurrent use of RPE and PR scales allows athletes to sustain interval training performance with shorter recovery times compared to traditional work-to-rest ratio strategies.
PR with RPE may enable shorter recoveries at maintained performance versus fixed ratios; leaves open need for larger trials before practice change.
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the concurrent use of Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and a new Perceived Readiness (PR) scale facilitates optimal interval training performance outcomes. Eleven competitive male runners completed outdoor interval track-running trials at a pre-set RPE. The PR scale was used to facilitate self-determined recovery, while minimum heart rate (HR) and work to rest ratio (WR) strategies were used as comparative conditions. Duplicate PR trial performances were similar but intercondition comparisons identified that the HR trial was significantly slower than both WR and PR conditions. There was no difference in performance between WR and PR, but recoveries for both PR trials were significantly shorter than for WR. Since the aim of interval training is to sustain performance with the shortest possible recovery time, the concurrent use of RPE and PR scales appears to be a useful psychophysiological technique to self- determine both work and rest in interval training.
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Edwards et al. (2010) studied Competitive runners (n=11). Perceived Readiness (PR) scale for self-determined recovery vs. Minimum heart rate (HR) and work to rest ratio (WR) strategies was evaluated on Interval training performance outcomes and recovery time. The use of a Perceived Readiness scale for self-determined recovery yielded similar performance to a work-to-rest ratio strategy but with significantly shorter recovery times.
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