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Mota, MR, de Oliveira, RJ, Dutra, MT, Pardono, E, Terra, DF, Lima, RM, Simões, HG, and da Silva, FM. Acute and chronic effects of resistive exercise on blood pressure in hypertensive elderly women. J Strength Cond Res 27 (12): 3475–3480, 2013—The purpose of this study was to investigate postexercise hypotension (PEH) during a 4-month period of resistance training in hypertensive elderly women. Sixty-four women were divided into 2 groups: an experimental group (EG), which performed resistance training, and a control group (CG) that did not practice any exercise. The EG carried out the following steps:(a) 3 weeks of exercise adaptation and 1 repetition maximum (1RM) test (month 1);(b) resistance exercise at 60% 1RM (month 2);(c) resistance exercise at 70% 1RM (month 3);(d) resistance exercise at 80% 1RM (month 4); and (e) PEH analyses at the end of each month. Measurements of systolic (SBP) and …