Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9880
ISSN: 2155-9880
Salvatore Novo
Chair and Postgraduate School of Cardiovascular Diseases, Center for Early Diagnosis of Preclinical and multidistrict Atherosclerosis, Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, UOC of Cardiology, A.O.U.P. Paolo Giaccone,
Italy
Research Article
Effects of a Physical Activity Program on Cardiac Cycle Events in Sedentary Individuals
Author(s): Antonia Dalla Pria Bankoff and Carlos Aparecido Zamai
Antonia Dalla Pria Bankoff and Carlos Aparecido Zamai
Physical activities – walking, fitness and ballroom dancing - were offered over a six month period (April-September 2007). Sixty-minute classes were offered three times a week, in the morning, at the Physical Activities Stand, in a program called Mexa-se (Move your Body). Each class was divided into three stages: warm-up (10 minutes); the class itself (45 minutes); and stretching and relaxation exercises performed to background music, in the last phase (05 minutes). Twenty-five sedentary individuals took part in this study: n=09 men (ages 34 to 50) and n=16 women (ages 31 to 51). This study aims to verify the effects of the program on the following cardiac cycle events: Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR). The Naughton Protocol was applied and the individuals were evaluated and re-evaluated according to the aforesaid methodology. Hea.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-9880.1000177