Post-exercise Recovery Heart Rate Reflecting Heart Fitness —Limitation of Fitness Index in Evaluation of Heart Fitness Associated with Increasing Age

Analysis of recovery heart rate can reflect the important information of heart fitness.As known,Fitness Index,which was calculated by 3 min step test,was used to evaluate the heart fitness,but it couldn't show the decline of heart fitness with increasing age.However,fitness index wasn't used to evaluate the heart fitness in population.This paper analyzed the defects in the fitness index and found out that average recovery heart rate reflected the decline in physical fitness associated with increasing age,but that rate change of recovery heart rate were similar in different age groups.This suggests that recovery heart rate is a useful index reflecting heart fitness.