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ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2024

Cardiovascular responses to leg-press exercises during head-down tilt.

Cristiano Alessandro, Amirehsan Sarabadani Tafreshi, Robert Riener

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Cristiano AlessandroSchool of Medicine and Surgery, Sport and Exercise Medicine, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Amirehsan Sarabadani TafreshiSensory-Motor Systems Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Robert RienerSensory-Motor Systems Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Introduction: Physical exercise and gravitational load affect the activity of the cardiovascular system. How these factors interact with one another is still poorly understood. Here we investigate how the cardiovascular system responds to leg-press exercise during head-down tilt, a posture that reduces orthostatic stress, limits gravitational pooling, and increases central blood volume. Methods: Seventeen healthy participants performed leg-press exercise during head-down tilt at different combinations of resistive force, contraction frequency, and exercise duration (30 and 60 s), leading to different exercise power. Systolic (sBP), diastolic (dBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), pulse pressure (PP) and heart rate (HR) were measured continuously. Cardiovascular responses were evaluated by comparing the values of these signals during exercise recovery to baseline. Mixed models were used to evaluate the effect of exercise power and of individual exercise parameter on the cardiovascular responses. Results: Immediately after the exercise, we observed a clear undershoot in sBP (Δ = -7.78 ± 1.19 mmHg), dBP (Δ = -10.37 ± 0.84 mmHg), and MAP (Δ = -8.85 ± 0.85 mmHg), an overshoot in PP (Δ = 7.93 ± 1.13 mmHg), and elevated values of HR (Δ = 33.5 ± 0.94 bpm) compared to baseline ( Conclusion: Leg exercises caused only immediate cardiovascular responses, potentially due to facilitated venous return by the head-down tilt position. The modulation of dBP, MAP and HR responses by exercise power and that of all signals by contraction frequency may help optimizing exercise prescription in conditions of limited orthostatic stress.

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blood pressurecontraction frequencyexercise powergravitational loadorthostatic stress

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