Effects of a highly intensive clean and jerk exercise on blood pressure and arterial stiffness in experienced non-professional weight lifters

The acute effects of resistance training on arterial stiffness: A systematic review

“…All studies reported to have low risk of bias for the following criteria: Random sequence generation (selection bias), incomplete outcome data (attrition bias), selective reporting (reporting bias). One study 27 was classified as having an unclear risk of bias for allocation concealment (selection bias) due to study design (pre-post intervention including only one group). Two 13,28 were identified with other risk of bias due to training protocol adopted (a single exercise was performed; thus, it is unknown if the inclusion of additional exercises would have influenced the results).…”

“…Ten st udies repor ted an sig nif icant i ncrease i n cfPWV [10][11][12][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] , five studies observed no significant differences 13,14,[34][35][36] while one study reported a significant decrease of 14% in peripheral PWV 13 . Increases in PWV from baseline to post-exercise values ranged from 2% to 20.8%.…”

“…A whole-body resistance training protocol (Table 2.) was adopted by ten studies [10][11][12]14,27,[30][31][32][33]36 while three studies prescribed exercises for the lower 13,29,34 or upper body 28 only. Two studies compared differences in AS between upper and lower body muscle groups 35,37 two studies compared the effects of aerobic vs resistance exercise 10,30 while others compared differences between males and females 31 , weight machines and free weight exercises 32 , a RT protocol and a bout of Valsalva manoeuvres 34 , traditional RT and blood flow restriction RT 29 , among different levels of effort 33 , across the age span 14 and between different loading intensities 36 .…”

“…Loading intensity (Table 2.) was prescribed in relative terms with a predetermined number of repetitions in eleven studies 11,12,14,27,29,31,32,[34][35][36][37] , three studies prescribed a relative load with repetitions performed to task failure 13,28,33 , while in two trials 10,30 load was prescribed based on repetition maximum (RM) targets (i.e., 10RM). The majority of studies prescribed moderate to high loading intensities (60 -95% 1RM) with one exception 36 .…”

“…The majority of studies prescribed moderate to high loading intensities (60 -95% 1RM) with one exception 36 . Irrespective of loading intensity AS either increased [10][11][12][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]36,37 , decreased 13 , or remain unchanged 13,14,[34][35][36] .…”