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    • Sports Medicine
    • Physiology
    • Biomedical Engineering

    Background:

    • Incremental exercise testing typically reveals two ventilatory thresholds (VT1, VT2) via gas exchange and ventilatory data.
    • Estimating VT2 non-invasively during maximal exercise is crucial for performance assessment and training prescription.
    • Heart rate variability (HRV) offers a promising, wearable-based metric for physiological monitoring.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the feasibility of estimating the second ventilatory threshold (VT2) using HRV indices.
    • To develop and validate a machine learning model for VT2 estimation from wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) data.
    • To compare the performance of an HRV-derived threshold (HRVT) against expert-determined VT2 during maximal exercise.

    Main Methods:

    • Collected 42 maximal exercise tests on treadmills from 24 healthy male volunteers.
    • Utilized wearable ECGs to derive heart rate variability (HRV) indices during exercise.
    • Employed principal component subspace reconstruction of expert-identified VT2s to create a collective VT2 reference for machine learning.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method demonstrated reasonable performance in estimating VT2 from HRV during maximal exercise.
    • The HRV-derived threshold (HRVT) was within one minute of the collective expert determination in 28 out of 42 (66.7%) exercise tests.
    • This indicates a strong potential for using wearable ECGs and HRV for VT2 assessment.

    Conclusions:

    • VT2 can be effectively estimated using HRV indices derived from wearable ECGs during maximal exercise.
    • The HRVT method provides a practical, non-invasive approach for assessing a key physiological marker.
    • Further research can refine this technique for broader application in sports science and clinical settings.