Acute and Long-Lasting Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on Handball Team Coach’s Match Stress
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participant
2.2. Procedures
2.3. Design
2.4. Instruments
2.5. Statistics
3. Results
3.1. Acute Effect of Slow-Paced Breathing on HR, C, and AA before the Matches When SPB Was Performed
3.2. Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on Heart Rate
3.3. Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on C
3.4. Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on AA
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Nikolovski, Z.; Vrdoljak, D.; Foretić, N.; Perić, M.; Marić, D.; Fountoulakis, C. Acute and Long-Lasting Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on Handball Team Coach’s Match Stress. Healthcare 2023, 11, 1242. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091242
Nikolovski Z, Vrdoljak D, Foretić N, Perić M, Marić D, Fountoulakis C. Acute and Long-Lasting Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on Handball Team Coach’s Match Stress. Healthcare. 2023; 11(9):1242. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091242
Chicago/Turabian StyleNikolovski, Zoran, Dario Vrdoljak, Nikola Foretić, Mia Perić, Dora Marić, and Charalampos Fountoulakis. 2023. "Acute and Long-Lasting Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on Handball Team Coach’s Match Stress" Healthcare 11, no. 9: 1242. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091242
APA StyleNikolovski, Z., Vrdoljak, D., Foretić, N., Perić, M., Marić, D., & Fountoulakis, C. (2023). Acute and Long-Lasting Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on Handball Team Coach’s Match Stress. Healthcare, 11(9), 1242. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091242