Does resistance training mitigate cardiovascular reactivity to sympathoexcitation in young adults?
Unlike aerobic exercise, resistance training does not appear to modulate cardiovascular reactivity to stressors in young adults.
Increased cardiovascular reactivity to stressors is one of the important risk factors of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. While the beneficial effects of aerobic exercise training on modulating cardiovascular reactivity have been consistently demonstrated, it remains unclear whether resistance training may also provide similar benefits. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of resistance training on cardiovascular reactivity in young adults.
Park et al. (Sat,) studied this question.