Late-night exercise affects the autonomic nervous system activity but not the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in the next morning


Ucar C., Ozgocer T., YILDIZ S.

JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE AND PHYSICAL FITNESS, cilt.58, ss.57-65, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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BACKGROUND: Exercise activates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) and autonomic nervous system (ANS) and generally causes beneficial changes in homeostatic balance. However, the health benefits of late-night exercise programs on the activity of HPA and ANS is not known. The aim of this study was to assess effects of late-night exercise on sleep quality and on the activities of the HPA axis (as cortisol awakening response, CAR) and the ANS (as heart rate variability, HRV) measurements in the following morning.