Obesity
Conditions
Keywords
aquatic training, body composition, lipid profile, obesity management, physical fitness testing, resting heart rate
Brief summary
This study aims to assess the effects of 10-week water-based aerobic training (thrice a week) on anthropometrics, biochemicals, cardiovascular parameters, and explosive strength in young overweight and obese women. The findings indicate that water-based aerobic training could be a useful program to enhance body composition, biochemical, cardiovascular, and explosive strength parameters in young overweight and obese women compared to inactive persons
Detailed description
This study is based on a randomized controlled trial with a pre-to-post testing design, twenty-seven young overweight and obese women were assigned to training group (a water-based aerobic training) or control group (maintaining their usual activities during the studying period. For each training session, water activities were implemented for 50 min which included warm-up (10 min), main activities (30 min), and cool-down (10 min). The swimming pool where the intervention took part was 1.50 m deep of water. The pre- and post-intervention participants were assessed for their anthropometrics, biochemicals (fasting glycemia, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride (TG)), resting blood pressure, and resting heart rate, and explosive strength of upper (countermovement jump and squat jump) and lower limbs (a seated medicine ball throw test).
Interventions
OTHER10-week water-based aerobic training
The water-based aerobic program was adopted from the protocol previously used by Costa et al. (2018, 2020). This training program was carried out thrice a week over 2 non-consecutive days 48 hours apart for 10 weeks according to ACSM guidelines
Sponsors
University of Taipei
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
29 Years to 35 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Age between 20 and 35 years * Sedentary lifestyle within six month * Not using drugs or other therapy for obesity.
Exclusion criteria
* BMI below 25.0 and over 34.9 kg.m-2 * having any infectious or skin diseases
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| heart rate in beat per minute | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood sample |
| triglyceride concentrations in millimoles per liter | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood sample |
| systolic blood pressure in millimeters of mercury | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood sample |
| diastolic blood pressure in millimeters of mercury | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood sample |
| fasting glycemia in millimoles per liter | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood sample |
| total cholesterol in millimoles per liter | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood sample |
| high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in millimoles per liter | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood samplelipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride concentrations |
| low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in millimoles per liter | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline blood sample |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| squat jump in centimeters | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline lower limbs power test |
| chest 3-kg medicine ball throw in meters | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline upper limbs power test |
| countermovement jump in centimetres | 3 days before the 10-week interventional period | baseline lower limbs power test |
Countries
Taiwan
Outcome results
None listed