Ms Mahboubeh Kavianipour, Dr Ali Hassani, Dr Elham Vosadi,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (11-2019)
Abstract
Purpose: Weakness in physical fitness is one of the factors that reduce the quality of life, illness, and injury of the elderly. Elderly people who do physical exercises reduce the occurrence of falls and the risk of fractures, suffer from depression and dementia, and improve physical fitness. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of eight weeks of Fall proof and combined training on the physical fitness of elderly women.
Methods: The subjects included 45 elderly women, who were randomly divided into three groups: control, Combination training, and Fall proof training. A pre-test and a post-test were conducted for all groups, which included the measurement of some physical fitness factors. Then, the experimental groups did an exercise program for eight weeks, three sessions per week, and each session lasted 60 minutes, and during this time, the control group did their daily activities.
Results: In this study, it was shown that a course of Combination and Fall proof training caused a significant increase in improving strength (P=0.001 and P=0.001), body composition (P=0.003 and P=0.001), static balance (P=0.001 and P=0.04), dynamic balance (P=0.001 and P=0.001), flexibility (P=0.01 and P=0.001) and cardiovascular endurance (P=0.001 and P=0.001) in the elderly and the effect of Combination training on muscle strength was more than Fall proof training (P=0.04). Also, in static balance and flexibility, Fall proof training was more effective than Combination training (P=0.08 and P=0.004).
Conclusions: Based on these results, it can be concluded that using both training protocols used in this study can be used to improve the level of physical fitness of the elderly. Based on these results, the two training protocols were not significantly superior to each other.
Dr Adel Donyaei, Mustafa Rahimi, Fatemehsadat Nabavi,
Volume 20, Issue 24 (3-2023)
Abstract
vitamin D deficiency is associated with many cardiovascular disorders. Arterial stiffness responses also depend on nutritional and exercise. Therefore, the study aimed to investigate the relationship between arterial stiffness response after glucose uptake and exercise with baseline levels of vitamin D in inactive men and women.
The present study was an analysis correlation study, and the subjects were 88 inactive men and women with an age range of 20 to 45 years. Vitamin D, body composition, and arterial stiffness, were measured. Subjects then ran for 30 minutes at 65% of maximum heart rate. Also, 75g of glucose was given to the subjects after 30 minutes of activity, 60 minutes after the of glucose consumption and arterial stiffness was measured. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test and analysis of variance with repeated measures at a significant level (P≤0.05).there was a negative and significant relationship between baseline levels of vitamin D and changes in CAVI in women (p=0.001 and r=-0.559) and in men a positive and significant relationship (p=0.005 and r=0.413).It seems that basal levels of vitamin D can be effective in the vascular response; due to little research, more research is need.
