Mental and physiological wellbeing while rowing across the North Atlantic: a single-case study of subjective versus objective data.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Unassisted rowing across the Atlantic Ocean is an extreme undertaking challenging the human body in every possible way. The reported rowing journey lasted for 42 days in a small vessel with 12 rowers, each rowing for 12 h a day, broken into 3 h shifts. This schedule disrupts the natural circadian cycle and autonomic balance, affecting subjective and objective wellbeing and sleep quality, that lack continuous empirical quantification. Methods: With a self-reported questionnaire and objective heart rate variability measurements every second day in a single female rower, we monitor evolutions of the subjective sleep quality and mental wellbeing as well as autonomic body control over the journey duration. We evaluate the hypothesis that extreme rowing impairs subjec

SUBMITTER: Zeiner K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10546170 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature