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Acute effects of different resistance training loads on cardiac autonomic modulation in hypertensive postmenopausal women.

Arthur F ValeJuliana A CarneiroPaulo C V JardimThiago V JardimJames SteeleJames P FisherPaulo Roberto Viana Gentil
Published in: Journal of translational medicine (2018)
Performing high intensity RT with lower loads and a higher number of repetitions seems to promote acute increases in sympathetic ANS activity, which may be related to cardiovascular stress. On the other hand, heavier load and lower repetition RT did not significantly impact upon autonomic modulation when compared to a control session.
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