“…These substances can trigger cardiovascular reflexes (i.e., the so called "metaboreflex"), thereby activating the sympathetic nervous system, which in turn increases blood pressure to guarantee sufficient metabolite wash-out from the contracting muscle (19,39). In normal individuals, this task is accomplished with a complex hemodynamic response that encompasses complex interplay between myocardial performance, cardiac preload, afterload, and HR (3,6,9,13,14,24,33,40,51,56). Recent evidence suggests that, at least in healthy subjects, when the metaboreflex is activated by PEMI, a central role in the described metaboreflex-induced blood pressure response is played by the possibility to keep constant or to increase SV, thereby maintaining or increasing CO, since HR is not usually involved in the phenomenon (3, 9 -11, 25, 38).…”