Features of physical performance in athletes without and with signs of chronic fatigue

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Володимир Ільїн
Михайло Філіппов
Валерій Виноградов

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The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of physical performance in sportsmen without and with signs of chronic fatigue (CF). The examinations were attended by 22 athletes - track and field athletes, members of the national teams of Ukraine in long-distance running, who were divided into two groups: the first - 12 athletes without signs of CF, the second - 10 athletes with signs of initial and severe CF. The content of the research included: determination of the gas composition of exhaled and alveolar air, pulmonary ventilation and its components during work on a bicycle ergometer with minute-by-minute gradually increasing power from 50 to 250 W for 5 minutes and during the recovery period. The contribution of aerobic and anaerobic components to energy metabolism was calculated. It was determined that the power of aerobic processes in sportsmen without signs of CF was 10.3% higher than in sportsmen with signs of CF. At the same time the power of anaerobic processes in them was by 11,9 % lower The oxygen demand for work, its oxygen cost, oxygen debt (alactate and lactate fractions) in sportsmen without signs of CF were significantly lower than in sportsmen with such signs, but the percentage ratios of oxygen demand for work and oxygen debt in them were practically the same. In athletes with signs of CF there was an increase in the relative contribution of anaerobic metabolism to the overall energy supply system of the body. Perhaps this was due to the fact that against the background of a decrease in the power of aerobic processes in athletes with signs of CF, the power of anaerobic processes increases as a compensation for energy needs. As a result, the relative contribution of anaerobic metabolism to the overall energy supply system of the body increases in such athletes, which helps to maintain their physical performance at a sufficiently high level, but at the expense of less economical reactions of the body to physical activity (the phenomenon of “hidden” fatigue). These changes in the restructuring of energy supply of physical performance can be considered as one of the mechanisms of compensation of energy needs of the organism of sportsmen with signs of CF, and also recommended as one of the informative indicators of CF formation.

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