“…In addition to the positive effects on blood pressure, studies have analysed the effects of isometric handgrip training on the autonomic nervous system, which plays a major role in the regulation of the cardiovascular system (Badrov et al, ; Farah et al, ; Millar, Levy, McGowan, McCartney, & MacDonald, ; Stiller‐Moldovan, Kenno, & McGowan, ; Taylor, Mccartney, Kamath, & Wiley, ) and sympathetic increase and parasympathetic reduction to the heart are associated with fatal and non‐fatal cardiovascular events (Dekker et al, ; Tsuji et al, ). In these studies, cardiac autonomic modulation was assessed using heart rate variability, which is a non‐invasive method to assess cardiac autonomic modulation based on the analysis of the variations in the time between heart beats (Farah et al, ; Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology & the North American Society of Pacing & Electrophysiology, ).…”