überlegungen zur Trainingswissenschaft

The deliberations on training science as a scientific discipline, training science itself, and economic aspects within the framework of training science-related intervention research in theory and practice are explicitly meant to be a contribution to the discussion on the further exploration of training science processes. Furthermore, the application of economic considerations is supposed to expand the training science foundation based on a framework model for training adaptations. Currently, the link between economic and training science observations is still in the initial phase of scientific processing. From the author??s point of view, further research efforts are required to be able to estimate the consequences of these deliberations. This means that scientific experts are called upon to further explore athletic training as a scientific object of research and the ensuing implications.     

Akute und chronische Effekte von Ausdauerbelastungen auf das Herz bei Sportlern, gesunden Normalpersonen und Patienten

Due to endurance exercise-induced increases of the cardiac biomarkers troponin and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), which are usually elevated in patients with acute myocardial infarction and heart failure and used in clinical practice as diagnostic tools in these diseases, the clinical and sportsmedical relevance of these exercise-induced increases was unclear. Therefore, the aim was to examine this topic systematically by consecutive studies. Considering the acute effects of endurance exercise, an intensity- and duration-dependent short-term elevation could be demonstrated in the majority of healthy athletes without pathological relevance. Considering the chronic effects of endurance exercise it could be shown that regular and competitive endurance exercise training induces an athlete??s heart with harmonic eccentric hypertrophy of the left and right ventricle, which also is not of pathological relevance. In conclusion it can be assumed from the results of these studies that acute and chronic endurance exercise is not harmful for the healthy heart.