[Bicycle training by the method of the "free choice" of physical loading in the combined treatment of hypertension patients].

The trends in central hemodynamics and muscular performance were investigated in 107 patients with essential hypertension stage I and II. The intensity of bicycle exercise was either preset (50% of individual exercise tolerance) or decided individually by each examinee (39 and 68 patients of group 1 and 2, respectively). 12 bicycle trainings have improved myocardial contractility at rest and threshold muscular load, exercise tolerance in group 2. Group 1 hemodynamic and performance parameters changed insignificantly.