Difference of physiological responses to swimming and running

The purpose of this research is to investigate the range of response to the treadmill running and swimming. Cardiovascular changes and substrates changes in blood were examined before and after healthy male subjects (swimming group (SG) has swimming habits and running group (RG) has practiced basketball or baseball or running more than four days a week) swam and ran for 10 to 15 minutes voluntarily. Average heart rate was recovered more quickly in case of running than swimming in the RG, but in the SG there was no difference. Diastolic blood pressure recovered to the rest condition faster in the SG than RG. In case that subjects have done familiar exercise, free fatty acids increased a little more after 10 minutes than in case of unfamiliar exercise. These results suggest that response of habitual exercise showed lesser change of diastolic blood pressure and more increase of free fatty acids. There might be a difference in physiological responses between usual sports and other kinds, so that we had to be careful when we apply different styles of activity to use training.