Ultra-short-term heart rate variability indexes at rest and post-exercise in athletes: Evaluating the agreement with accepted recommendations

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 535-541

  Esco, Michael R ^a   Flatt, Andrew A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Athletic monitoring; Autonomic; Parasympathetic; Performance; Training load

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905752308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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