Athlete's Heart and Cardiovascular Care of the Athlete

American‐Style Football and Cardiovascular Health

“…Healthy sport‐specific cardiovascular adaptations occur in response to the hemodynamic stressors inherent in strenuous exercise training 63. As detailed, ASF participants are exposed to considerable amounts of isometric hemodynamic stress with variable amounts of concomitant dynamic stress, as dictated by field position.…”

Cardiovascular adaptation in athletes

“…(Figure 1) Exercise-induced cardiac remodeling (EICR) is stimulated by the pressure and volume stressors that accompany increases in both external and internal work. 4 The specific stimuli inherent in the exercise response can be dichotomous into isometric and isotonic physiology. Isotonic stress refers to the movement of large quantities of blood through the cardiovascular system.…”

Effects of intrinsic aerobic capacity, aging and voluntary running on skeletal muscle sirtuins and heat shock proteins

“…In Schnohr's study, light and moderate joggers had lower mortality than sedentary subjects, whereas strenuous joggers had similar mortality rate as the sedentary group. According to these studies it may be sufficient to exercise moderately to achieve a healthy lifestyle; moderate physical activity seems to reduce all-cause mortality effectively in both human and rodents without increasing risks due to possible cardiovascular side-effects of high intensity exercise (Baggish & Wood 2011;Navarro et al 2004). In rodents, an early study on the effects of exercise on the lifespan of rats showed that voluntary running shortened the survival of rats (Slonaker & J. R. 1912).…”