| HR | heart rate |
| HRV | heart rate variability |
| HRVT | heart rate variability threshold |
| CPET | cardiopulmonary exercise test |
| ECG | electrocardiography |
| AerT | aerobic threshold |
| AnT | anaerobic threshold |
| ANS | autonomic nervous system |
| S | sympathetic activity |
| PS | parasympathetic activity |
| CSI | cardiac stress index |
| SD1 | standard deviation of instantaneous beat-to-beat interval variability |
| SD2 | standard deviation of continuous long-term R–R interval variability |
| DFA | detrended fluctuation analysis |
| ApEn | approximate entropy |
| RQA | recurrence quantification analysis |
| DET | percent of determinism |
| FFT | fast Fourier transform |
| HF | high frequencies |
| LF | low frequencies |
| VO2 | oxygen consumption |
| Ln(rMSSD) | natural logarithm of root mean square standard deviation |
| BLa | blood lactate production |