Training reduces autonomic cardiovascular responses to both exercise-dependent and-independent stimuli in humans

SE O'Sullivan, C Bell - Autonomic Neuroscience, 2001 - Elsevier
Training attenuates the sympathetic pressor response to dynamic exercise. However, it is
uncertain how training alters other patterns of cardiovascular autonomic activation.
Therefore, we have quantified circulatory responses to a series of standard autonomic tests
in highly fit and unfit subjects and examined the effects of a short-term training programme
on these responses. Subjects were defined as either unfit (n= 8) or fit (n= 8) on the basis of
training history and a maximal fitness test (VO2peak 54±2.3 cf. 68±2.8 (ml min− 1) kg− 1 …