Heart rate response to exercise
Cardiac control centre
Understand how exercise effects the heart rate
Know what the cardiovascular drift is.
Understand how the heart is controlled.
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Cardiac control centre
Cardiac control centre
Sympathetic nervous
system
Parasympathetic nervous
system
Increases heart rate
and SV
Decreases the heart rate.
Via
accelerator
nerve
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SA
Via Vagus
nerve
Heart regulation during exercise
 Rule of three two one.
 3 Neural factors
 2 Intrinsic factors
 1 Hormonal
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1 Hormonal
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Adrenalin
From adrenal glands
Stimulates the SA node directly via blood.
This increases the heart rate as well as the stroke
volume.
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2 Intrinsic
 Temperature
 Increase in temperature which speeds up the nerve
impulse, which in turn speeds up the heart rate.
 Venous return
 Increase in SV (staling’s law)
 Increase in HR and SV
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3 Neural
 Baroreceptors Baro = pressure
 Increase in blood pressure = decrease in HR but is
neutralised due to demand of 02.
Chemoreceptors Chemo = Chemical
In muscle aorta and carotid arteries
1) Decrease in PH
2) Increase in pp Co2
3) Decrease in pp O2
Proprioceptors
Muscle spindles, joint receptors
Increase in motor activity = increase in HR and SV
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