The effect of 12 weeks of water-aerobics on health status and physical fitness: an ecological approach
| dc.contributor.author | Neiva, Henrique P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Faíl, Luís Brandão | |
| dc.contributor.author | Izquierdo Redín, Mikel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marqués, Mário C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marinho, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.department | Ciencias de la Salud | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Osasun Zientziak | eu |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-18T09:18:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-18T09:18:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of the present study was to verify the effects of a 12-week water aerobics program in a real-life context on health indicators and physical fitness in adults and older adults. Fifteen volunteers (58.80 ± 14.32 years old) were part of an experimental group (Exercise), and eight volunteers (59.00 ± 12.26 years old) were part of the control group (Control). The Exercise performed 45 min of water aerobics twice a week for 12 weeks; no physical exercise was permitted for the Control during the same period. The evaluations were performed the week before (pre-training) and after the training program (post-training). The primary outcomes were the strength and cardiorespiratory fitness variables and the secondary outcomes included body anthropometry, lipid profile and blood pressure. Adjusted analysis for age and baseline values showed no differences between Exercise and Control in post-training moment. However, there was a moderated tendency for increased explosive strength of the upper limbs (ηp2 = 0.17), reduced body fat (ηp2 = 0.17), reduced systolic blood pressure (ηp2 = 0.14) and triglycerides (ηp2 = 0.19) in Exercise. Within groups changes showed that the training program caused an increase mainly in explosive strength in the upper limbs (0.26 m, 95% CI, 0.03, 0.49; ES = 0.63) In addition, there was a significant decrease in fat mass (-0.89%, 95% CI, -1.74, -0.03; ES = 0.61) and in the systolic blood pressure (-0.83 mmHg, -1.46, -0.19; ES = 0.71). Nonetheless, no significant changes were observed for the lipid profile. These results suggest that 12 weeks of water aerobics performed twice a week in a real-life context seem to benefit the explosive strength, body composition, and blood pressure of adults and older adults but is insufficient to alter cardiorespiratory fitness and lipid profiles. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This project was supported by the National Funds through FCT – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (UID/DTP/04045/2013) – and the European Fund for Regional Development (FEDER) allocated by European Union through the COMPETE 2020 Programme (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006969) and also through the Project NanoSTIMA: Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing, Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics, NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016, co-financed by European Fund for Regional Development (FEDER) - NORTE 2020. This study has been funded by a research grant PI17/01814 of the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (ISCIII, FEDER). | en |
| dc.format.extent | 15 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0198319 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/38712 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | PLoS ONE, 2018, 13(5): e0198319 | en |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198319 | |
| dc.rights | © 2018 Pereira Neiva et al. This is an_x000D_ open access article distributed under the terms of_x000D_ the Creative Commons Attribution License, which_x000D_ permits unrestricted use, distribution, and_x000D_ reproduction in any medium, provided the original_x000D_ author and source are credited. | en |
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| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Exercise | en |
| dc.subject | Blood pressure | en |
| dc.subject | Body limbs | en |
| dc.subject | Lipid profiles | en |
| dc.subject | Anthropometry | en |
| dc.subject | Physical fitness | en |
| dc.subject | Cholesterol | en |
| dc.subject | Strength training | en |
| dc.title | The effect of 12 weeks of water-aerobics on health status and physical fitness: an ecological approach | en |
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