Chronic and Acute Effects of Resistance Exercise on Older Subjects' Blood Pressure (RTBP)

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Pressure

Treatments: Behavioral: Resistance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01113203

CNPq471600/2008-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aimed to evaluate the chronic and acute effects of high-intensity resistance training on blood pressure and its hemodynamic and neural determinators in healthy normotensive older subjects.

Full description

To investigate the chronic and acute effects of resistance training on blood pressure and its hemodynamic and neural determinators in elderly, 24 healthy normotensive older subjects were randomly divided into 2 groups: trained and control. The trained group was submitted a progressive high-intensity resistance training. Before and after 16 weeks, as well as, before and after the one training session, blood pressure (clinic and ambulatory), cardiac output (CO2 rebreathing), and autonomic modulation (spectral analysis of heart rate and blood pressure variabilities) were measured

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 60 to 80 years
• Normotensives
• Nonactive

Exclusion criteria

• Cardiovascular disease
• Cardiovascular medication
• Orthopedic problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

Resistance training

Experimental group

Description:

Progressive high intensity resistance training performed twice a week for 16 weeks, and achieving in 7 exercises for the main muscles, the protocol of 4 sets of 6RM and 2 of 4RM.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resistance training