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How do biathlon athletes control heartrate?
A question came up on another newsgroup about how to control heartrate and adrenalin rush. Knowing how the top biathlon racers have to control their heartrate to be able to stop and shoot accurately, is there some kind of method they use to do this? Obviously being in great shape helps, but I'm thinking maybe they use a bio-feedback device or something to aid them. Pardons if this isn't the right newsgroup to ask this, or if there's a FAQ, with such answers, a pointer? TIA, -Badger |
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How do biathlon athletes control heartrate?
Years ago I attended a meeting with a coach who had done some training in
the former Soviet Union. Apparently there is a slight pause in heart beat when a person takes a deep breath. By using bio-feedback techniques they learned to extend this pause long enough to take a shot. I also remember him saying that he had become so aware of his heartbeat that he would wake up in the middle of the night in a panic if his heart rate slowed down too much. I don't remember any more details than that. Scott Elliot "Badger_South" wrote in message ... A question came up on another newsgroup about how to control heartrate and adrenalin rush. Knowing how the top biathlon racers have to control their heartrate to be able to stop and shoot accurately, is there some kind of method they use to do this? Obviously being in great shape helps, but I'm thinking maybe they use a bio-feedback device or something to aid them. Pardons if this isn't the right newsgroup to ask this, or if there's a FAQ, with such answers, a pointer? TIA, -Badger |
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How do biathlon athletes control heartrate?
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:28:01 GMT, "Scott Elliot"
wrote: Years ago I attended a meeting with a coach who had done some training in the former Soviet Union. Apparently there is a slight pause in heart beat when a person takes a deep breath. By using bio-feedback techniques they learned to extend this pause long enough to take a shot. I also remember him saying that he had become so aware of his heartbeat that he would wake up in the middle of the night in a panic if his heart rate slowed down too much. I don't remember any more details than that. Scott Elliot Wow. Cool. Thanks a bunch, Scott. This is exactly what I was looking for. Hope you don't mind if I excerpt your comments over in rec.martial-arts. Best, -Badger "Badger_South" wrote in message .. . A question came up on another newsgroup about how to control heartrate and adrenalin rush. Knowing how the top biathlon racers have to control their heartrate to be able to stop and shoot accurately, is there some kind of method they use to do this? Obviously being in great shape helps, but I'm thinking maybe they use a bio-feedback device or something to aid them. Pardons if this isn't the right newsgroup to ask this, or if there's a FAQ, with such answers, a pointer? TIA, -Badger |
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How do biathlon athletes control heartrate?
I don't know how you can consciously control your heartrate, but your heart
will naturally slow slightly when you take a deep breath, called sinus arrhythmia, and I suppose if you have a slow heart rate to start with, you can time your shot appropriately. Perhaps they "beardown" (sp?), like going to the bathroom, that will stimulate the vagus nerve and slow the heart, but I don't know how you could consciously do that otherwise. jw (ICU Registered Nurse) milwaukee |
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How do biathlon athletes control heartrate?
A story, whose source I can't remember, from some years ago
was that a certain Russian (or USSR) marathon runner who was said to have won the marathon in successive Olympics maybe in the 60's, had such control that , standing at the Olympic startline, his HR was only 40. That's somewhat different from what this thread is about, but interesting if true. I'm often way up near 100 at a start, and that hasn't much to do with the warmup. Does anybody else here know what their HR is whan just anticipating the start of a race? My resting HR is low 40's, and typically just standing around 10 minutes after a half hour warmup it certainly wouldn't be much above 60 if that. Best, Peter |
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How do biathlon athletes control heartrate?
Badger,
Badger Are you interested in how to control heartrate when you are resting like e.g. pistol shooters? Or do you want to know how to shoot straight after strenuous exercise, like a biathlete? My brother used to do competitive pistol shooting so I can ask him about the former. I discussed this years ago with a couple of Biathletes that I met on the racing circuit. They said they don't even try to control their heart rate because it would take too long. One said he tried not to let his pulse rate drop below 180 when he was shooting, because if it did, the amplitude of the pulse-induced tremor got too large. I don't know if this is the up-to-date practice, but I may to be able to find out if you like. Regards, Alex Badger_South wrote in message . .. A question came up on another newsgroup about how to control heartrate and adrenalin rush. Knowing how the top biathlon racers have to control their heartrate to be able to stop and shoot accurately, is there some kind of method they use to do this? Obviously being in great shape helps, but I'm thinking maybe they use a bio-feedback device or something to aid them. Pardons if this isn't the right newsgroup to ask this, or if there's a FAQ, with such answers, a pointer? TIA, -Badger |
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