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Does evening exercise compared to morning exercise affect post-exercise heart rate recovery and variability in pre-hypertensive men?
Does evening exercise compared to morning exercise affect post-exercise heart rate recovery and variability in pre-hypertensive men?
In pre-hypertensive men, the time of day of exercise does not affect the prognostic index of heart rate recovery, but evening exercise blunts post-exercise parasympathetic reactivation.
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Time-of-day independence of HRR60s supports flexible testing; blunted evening parasympathetic reactivation remains hypothesis-generating and should not yet alter practice.
Brito et al. (2015) studied this question.
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