Monitoring exercise intensity in diabetes: applicability of “heart rate-index” to estimate oxygen consumption during aerobic and resistance training

ConclusionVO2 of aerobic exercises can be accurately estimated in diabetes patients using HRindex. During isotonic exercise, this method is not recommended for monitoring metabolic intensity due to large overestimation and imprecision. In aerobic exercise, HRindex offers a simple and valid alternative to the direct VO2 determination and may favour the applicability of time-resolved measures of exercise “dose”.
Source: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation - Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research