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Heart rate variability in weightlifters

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On the basis of the literature and original data, heart rate variability (HRV) in weightlifters has been studied. The results showed that the distribution mode (a parameter of mathematical analysis that is equal to the most frequent length of RR intervals) indicates the intensity of physical exercise. Specific changes in the autonomic balance in athletes as dependent on their degree of training and sports qualification are important characteristics of adaptations to physical loads. For example, the degree of training of weightlifters is reflected by the level of the respiratory component as an index of the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system. Adaptation to physical exercise leads to an increase in the power of the spectrum of neurohumoral modulation and to changes in the ratio between the levels of the total spectral power of HRV.

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  1. Chuvash State University, Cheboksary, Republic of Chuvashia, Russia

    E. V. Oreshnikov, V. F. Tihonov & T. V. Agafonkina

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Original Russian Text © E.V. Oreshnikov, V.F. Tihonov, T.V. Agafonkina, 2009, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 139–141.

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Oreshnikov, E.V., Tihonov, V.F. & Agafonkina, T.V. Heart rate variability in weightlifters. Hum Physiol 35, 517–519 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119709040185

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