 Post-intervention: When the intervention periods were completed, the participants were allowed to bathe for subsequent installation of the equipment for hemodynamic and cardiac autonomic assessment. The blood pressure monitoring was performed in the subsequent 24 hours, every 15 minutes during the day and every 30 minutes during the night. The R-R interval records were continuously obtained in the subsequent 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours period, the volunteers returned to the laboratory for removal of the measuring equipment. In the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, the tests were considered valid when records occurred with more than 80 validity. 