Impact of training load on the heart rate of horses

Mlyneková, Eva; Halo, Marko; Maršálek, Miroslav; Starostová, Lucie

doi:10.15414/afz.2016.19.04.167-170

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“…With respect to the pre-conditioned animals, the highest HR value reached by the conditioned animals after ST was low. Such results are similar to those found in a study that investigated the influence of a six-week training program on the peak HR achieved by horses during the conditioning sessions, in which a progressive but non-significant reduction was observed [ 53 ]. The difference between the training protocol applied herein and that used by Mlyneková et al .…”

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“…The difference between the training protocol applied herein and that used by Mlyneková et al . (2016) [ 53 ] without association with a specific ST may explain the distinct results. Another point to consider about the highest HR value reached by the conditioned animals is that it was lower than the minimum value of 100 bpm/minutes established by the literature for echocardiographic evaluation after physical exercise [ 21 ].…”

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Effects of conditioning on the left ventricular function of young purebred Arabian horses

Ramos,

Santos,

Gava

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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The effects of conditioning on cardiac function in young horses is still unknown. For this reason, this study evaluated the left ventricular (LV) function of young horses by echocardiography after six weeks of conditioning. Fourteen untrained young purebred Arabian horses were evaluated at rest and after a stress test (ST) before and after a six-week conditioning program. There was an increase in V4 (p < 0.001) after conditioning, as well as a reduction in both heart rate (HR) at rest and peak HR during the ST (p < 0.001). There was also a reduction in internal diameter, along with an increase in interventricular septal, free wall and mean thicknesses and LV mass (p < 0.05). After the ST, the conditioned animals showed higher values of velocity time integral, stroke volume, systolic and cardiac indices, ejection (ET) and deceleration times (DT), end-diastolic volume, time to onset of radial myocardial velocity during early diastole and time to peak of transmitral flow velocity, in addition to reduced pre-ejection period (PEP), PEP/ET ratio and mean velocity of circumferential fiber shortening (p < 0.05). The conditioning protocol promoted physiological adaptations that indicate an improvement in the animals’ aerobic capacity associated with an enhanced left ventricular function.

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Effects of conditioning on the left ventricular function of young purebred Arabian horses

Ramos,

Santos,

Gava

et al. 2024

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“…Evaluation of the movement mechanics in terms of spaciousness we recorded a slight but statistically significant (p <0.05) increase in all tested horses favoring the increasing degree of load. These values confirm the fact that the mechanics of horse movement are positively adjusted by systematic and regular training (Mlyneková et al, 2016). Parkes et al (2019) in their experiment noticed that a non-linear pattern of stried length occured in two-year-old horses, which was initially stortened and the leveled off over time.…”

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Analysis of movement mechanics in the training process of sport horses

Mlyneková

Imrich²,

Strapáková³

et al. 2021

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The aim of the study was to determine the effect of training process on changes of quantitative and qualitative indicators of the movement mechanics of sport horses. A load controller was used to evaluate the motion mechanics. The training load was divided into three stages with different lengths, speeds and degrees of load. Tested animals were 14 horses of Slovak Warmblood breed. Our results have shown that gradual increase of load in the tested horses resulted in better spaciousness of movement, which was reflected in the elongation of the horse´s stride, regular movement and significant energy of the pelvic limbs (p <0.05). From our findings we can state that the effect of gender did not have significant effect on the number and length of steps in each degree of load. We have noticed a significant difference (p <0.05) in the "number of steps" parameter between the age categories of horses in the age up to 7 years (3.460 ±619) and the category aged up to 14 years (3.383 ±572). Gradual increase of the training load led to the economization of the movement and the long-term training process sled to the adaptation of the organism to repeated load.

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“…The difference may be due to the antioxidant effect of melatonin. Lower HR has been demonstrated to be beneficial in exercising individuals ( Mlynekova et al, 2016 ; Reimers et al, 2018 ; Arrazola and Merkies, 2020 ), and exercise is a form of stress. Further studies are, however, required to evaluate the HR variability in donkeys, which will give a better assessment of the stressful impact of the thermal environmental conditions.…”

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confidence: 99%