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Chapter 8. Cardiorespiratory Responses to Acute Exercise. Chapter 8 Overview. Cardiovascular responses to acute exercise Cardiac responses Vascular responses Integration of exercise responses Respiratory responses to acute exercise Ventilation (normal exercise, irregularities)
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Chapter 8 • Cardiorespiratory Responses to Acute Exercise
Chapter 8 Overview • Cardiovascular responses to acute exercise • Cardiac responses • Vascular responses • Integration of exercise responses • Respiratory responses to acute exercise • Ventilation (normal exercise, irregularities) • Ventilation and energy metabolism • Respiratory limitations • Respiratory regulation of acid-base balance
Cardiovascular Responsesto Acute Exercise • Increases blood flow to working muscle • Involves altered heart function, peripheral circulatory adaptations • Heart rate • Stroke volume • Cardiac output • Blood pressure • Blood flow • Blood
Cardiovascular Responses:Resting Heart Rate (RHR) • Normal ranges • Untrained RHR: 60 to 80 beats/min • Trained RHR: as low as 30 to 40 beats/min • Affected by neural tone, temperature, altitude • Anticipatory response: HR above RHR just before start of exercise • Vagal tone • Norepinephrine, epinephrine
Cardiovascular Responses:Heart Rate During Exercise • Directly proportional to exercise intensity • Maximum HR (HRmax): highest HR achieved in all-out effort to volitional fatigue • Highly reproducible • Declines slightly with age • Estimated HRmax = 220 – age in years • Better estimated HRmax = 208 – (0.7 x age in years)
Cardiovascular Responses:Heart Rate During Exercise • Steady-state HR: point of plateau, optimal HR for meeting circulatory demands at a given submaximal intensity • If intensity , so does steady-state HR • Adjustment to new intensity takes 2 to 3 min • Steady-state HR basis for simple exercise tests that estimate aerobic fitness and HRmax
Cardiovascular Responses:Stroke Volume (SV) • With intensity up to 40 to 60% VO2max • Beyond this, SV plateaus to exhaustion • Possible exception: elite endurance athletes • SV during maximal exercise ≈ double standing SV • But, SV during maximal exercise only slightly higher than supine SV • Supine SV much higher versus standing • Supine EDV > standing EDV
Cardiovascular Responses:Factors That Increase Stroke Volume • Preload: end-diastolic ventricular stretch – Stretch (i.e., EDV) contraction strength • Frank-Starling mechanism • Contractility: inherent ventricle property – Norepinephrine or epinephrine contractility • Independent of EDV ( ejection fraction instead) • Afterload: aortic resistance (R)
Cardiovascular Responses: Stroke Volume Changes During Exercise • Preload at lower intensities SV – Venous return EDV preload • Muscle and respiratory pumps, venous reserves • Increase in HR filling time slight in EDV SV • Contractility at higher intensities SV • Afterload via vasodilation SV
Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume:Untrained Versus Trained Versus Elite
Cardiovascular Responses:Cardiac Output (Q) • Q = HR x SV • With intensity, plateaus near VO2max • Normal values • Resting Q ~5 L/min • Untrained Qmax ~20 L/min • Trained Qmax 40 L/min • Qmax a function of body size and aerobic fitness
Cardiovascular Responses:Fick Principle • Calculation of tissue O2 consumption depends on blood flow, O2 extraction • VO2 = Q x (a-v)O2 difference • VO2 = HR x SV x (a-v)O2 difference
Cardiovascular Responses:Blood Pressure • During endurance exercise, mean arterial pressure (MAP) increases • Systolic BP proportional to exercise intensity • Diastolic BP slight or slight (at max exercise) • MAP = Q x total peripheral resistance (TPR) • Q , TPR slightly • Muscle vasodilation versus sympatholysis
Cardiovascular Responses:Blood Pressure • Rate-pressure product = HR x SBP • Related to myocardial oxygen uptake and myocardial blood flow • Resistance exercise periodic large increases in MAP • Up to 480/350 mmHg • More common when using Valsalva maneuver
Cardiovascular Responses:Blood Flow Redistribution • Cardiac output available blood flow • Must redirect blood flow to areas with greatest metabolic need (exercising muscle) • Sympathetic vasoconstriction shunts blood away from less-active regions • Splanchnic circulation (liver, pancreas, GI) • Kidneys
Cardiovascular Responses:Blood Flow Redistribution • Local vasodilation permits additional blood flow in exercising muscle • Local VD triggered by metabolic, endothelial products • Sympathetic vasoconstriction in muscle offset by sympatholysis • Local VD > neural VC • As temperature rises, skin VD also occurs – Sympathetic VC, sympathetic VD • Permits heat loss through skin
Cardiovascular Responses:Cardiovascular Drift • Associated with core temperature and dehydration • SV drifts • Skin blood flow • Plasma volume (sweating) • Venous return/preload • HR drifts to compensate (Q maintained)
Cardiovascular Responses:Competition for Blood Supply • Exercise + other demands for blood flow = competition for limited Q. Examples: • Exercise (muscles) + eating (splanchnic blood flow) • Exercise (muscles) + heat (skin) • Multiple demands may muscle blood flow
Cardiovascular Responses:Blood Oxygen Content • (a-v)O2 difference (mL O2/100 mL blood) • Arterial O2 content – mixed venous O2 content • Resting: ~6 mL O2/100 mL blood • Max exercise: ~16 to 17 mL O2/100 mL blood • Mixed venous O2 ≥4 mL O2/100 mL blood • Venous O2 from active muscle ~0 mL • Venous O2 from inactive tissue > active muscle • Increases mixed venous O2 content
Cardiovascular Responses:Plasma Volume • Capillary fluid movement into and out of tissue • Hydrostatic pressure • Oncotic, osmotic pressures • Upright exercise plasma volume • Compromises exercise performance – MAP capillary hydrostatic pressure • Metabolite buildup tissue osmotic pressure • Sweating further plasma volume
Cardiovascular Responses:Hemoconcentration • Plasma volume hemoconcentration • Fluid percent of blood , cell percent of blood • Hematocrit increases up to 50% or beyond • Net effects • Red blood cell concentration • Hemoglobin concentration • O2-carrying capacity
Central Regulation of Cardiovascular Responses • What stimulates rapid changes in HR, Q, and blood pressure during exercise? • Precede metabolite buildup in muscle • HR increases within 1 s of onset of exercise • Central command • Higher brain centers • Coactivates motor and cardiovascular centers
Cardiovascular Responses:Integration of Exercise Response • Cardiovascular responses to exercise complex, fast, and finely tuned • First priority: maintenance of blood pressure • Blood flow can be maintained only as long as BP remains stable • Prioritized before other needs (exercise, thermoregulatory, etc.)
Respiratory Responses:Ventilation During Exercise • Immediate in ventilation • Begins before muscle contractions • Anticipatory response from central command • Gradual second phase of in ventilation • Driven by chemical changes in arterial blood – CO2, H+ sensed by chemoreceptors • Right atrial stretch receptors
Respiratory Responses:Ventilation During Exercise • Ventilation increase proportional to metabolic needs of muscle • At low-exercise intensity, only tidal volume • At high-exercise intensity, rate also • Ventilation recovery after exercise delayed • Recovery takes several minutes • May be regulated by blood pH, PCO2, temperature
Respiratory Responses:Breathing Irregularities • Dyspnea (shortness of breath) • Common with poor aerobic fitness • Caused by inability to adjust to high blood PCO2, H+ • Also, fatigue in respiratory muscles despite drive to ventilation • Hyperventilation (excessive ventilation) • Anticipation or anxiety about exercise – PCO2 gradient between blood, alveoli – Blood PCO2 blood pH drive to breathe
Respiratory Responses:Breathing Irregularities • Valsalva maneuver: potentially dangerous but accompanies certain types of exercise • Close glottis – Intra-abdominal P (bearing down) – Intrathoracic P (contracting breathing muscles) • High pressures collapse great veins venous return Q arterial blood pressure
Respiratory Responses:Ventilation and Energy Metabolism • Ventilation matches metabolic rate • Ventilatory equivalent for O2 • VE/VO2 (L air breathed/L O2 consumed/min) • Index of how well control of breathing matched to body’s demand for oxygen • Ventilatory threshold • Point where L air breathed > L O2 consumed • Associated with lactate threshold and PCO2
Respiratory Responses:Estimating Lactate Threshold • Ventilatory threshold as surrogate measure? • Excess lactic acid + sodium bicarbonate • Result: excess sodium lactate, H2O, CO2 • Lactic acid, CO2 accumulate simultaneously • Refined to better estimate lactate threshold • Anaerobic threshold • Monitor both VE/VO2, VE/VCO2
Respiratory Responses:Limitations to Performance • Ventilation normally not limiting factor • Respiratory muscles account for 10% of VO2, 15% of Q during heavy exercise • Respiratory muscles very fatigue resistant • Airway resistance and gas diffusion normally not limiting factors at sea level • Restrictive or obstructive respiratory disorders can be limiting
Respiratory Responses:Limitations to Performance • Exception: elite endurance-trained athletes exercising at high intensities • Ventilation may be limiting • Ventilation-perfusion mismatch • Exercise-induced arterial hypoxemia (EIAH)
Respiratory Responses:Acid-Base Balance • Metabolic processes produce H+ pH • H+ + buffer H-buffer • At rest, body slightly alkaline • 7.1 to 7.4 • Higher pH = Alkalosis • During exercise, body slightly acidic • 6.6 to 6.9 • Lower pH = Acidosis