A Comparative Study of Different Recovery Programmes on Blood Lactate Removal

The purpose of this study was to compare the clearance of accumulated blood lactate during recovery. Sixty university level male sportsperson (Hockey20, Handball20 and Football20) from Punjabi University. Patiala, India, volunteered as subjects. Their age ranged between 18-25 years. The subjects were equally distributed in four experimental groups taking five subjects from each discipline. Fifteen subjects in each group. Group I attended stretching exercise, Group II attended slow cycling, Group III attended autogenic muscle relaxation and Group IV attended progressive muscle relaxation. The blood lactate was measured on day one and after twenty-one days of the application of different treatments. Analysis of Covariance was used to assess differences among the experimental groups. Further the Bonferroni test was applied to determine which of the paired mean had significant differences. The relative reduction in blood lactate concentration was significantly greater in Group I i. e. , stretching exercise (pless than0.05) as compared to other groups.