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Eight Week Strength Training Reduces Blood Pressure of Middle Age Women

NCT04044638 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2019-08-05

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Summary

Introduction: Strength training (ST) is an important non-pharmacological means to reduce blood pressure (BP). Objective: To verify the pressure response of women after 8 weeks of ST. Method: Fourteen women were divided into young group (YG) and middle age (MAG) and submitted to ST for 8 weeks, lasting 60 minutes in 11 alternating exercises per segment with intensity of 12 to 13 on the subjective perception scale of effort. BP was verified at weeks 1, 4 and 8.

Conditions

  • Blood Pressure
  • Resistance Training
  • Women

Interventions

OTHER

Resistance trainining

Resistance training sessions were held 3 times a week, in which each session lasted 60 minutes and was performed for a period of 8 weeks. Each session consisted of 10-minute warm-up, shortly after, starting the exercises in the form of alternating circuit by segment, as: machine bench press, extension chair, high pull (front), flexor table, direct curl, leg press, triceps pulley, adductor, abdominal, abductor and calf. In all 10 exercises, 3 sets of 8 to 12 repetitions were performed, with an interval of 60 seconds between sets and intensity of 12 arbitrary units (a.u.) to 14 a.u., measured by the rate perception effort scale. In the first, fourth and eighth week, pre-exercise blood pressure (BP) was verified, in which the participants sat for a period of 10 minutes at rest, in a comfortable chair, with legs uncrossed, feet flat on the floor, back leaning on the chair, left arm at heart level and palm up to measure BP using a G \* Tech-branded automatic digital device (MASTER model).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidade Regional do Cariri

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alfredo Anderson T de Araujo, MSc · Universidade Regional do Cariri

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
59 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-05
Primary Completion
2018-04-02
Completion
2018-04-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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