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. 2013 Oct 18;8(10):e78584. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078584

Table 1. Glossary of abbreviated terminology.

Performance indices and recovery periods (see also Figure 1)
TEPU Time-to-exhaustion Isometric Pull-Up
BSJTscore Sum of T-scores for the seven skills involved in the Blasco Specific Judo Test
RPE Rating of Perceived Exertion
Post1 Recovery period comprised between 180 and 360 s after Blasco Specific Judo Test
Post2 Recovery period comprised between 360 and 540 s after Blasco Specific Judo Test
Post3 Recovery period comprised between 540 and 720 s after Blasco Specific Judo Test
Post3 Recovery period comprised between 720 and 900 s after Blasco Specific Judo Test
Cardiovascular and metabolic terms and indices
HRbaseline Baseline heart rate
HRfinal Heart rate at the end of Blasco Specific Judo Test
HRmax Maximum heart rate achieved during Blasco Specific Judo Test
ΔHR Difference between maximum heart rate achieved during the test and baseline heart rate
HRR1 Difference between final heart rate and heart rate following 1 min of recovery
HRR2 Difference between final heart rate and heart rate following 2 min of recovery
HRV Heart Rate Variability
lnSDNN Log-transformed Standard Deviation of all normal RR intervals
lnRMSSD Log-transformed the Root-Mean-Square difference of successive normal RR intervals
lnHF Log-transformed High Frequency power
lnLF Log-transformed Low Frequency power
lnLFHF Log-transformed Low Frequency to High Frequency ratio
α1 Short-term fractal scaling exponent
lnSaEn Log-transformed Sample Entropy
[La]n Lactate concentration, where n= min of recovery (i.e. 1,3,5,10 & 15 min)
[La]peak Lactate Peak concentration
[La]cle Difference between [La]15 and [La]peak