Women’s physical status, before and after an exercise program:
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Introduction: Physical status is the expression of several body functions, and its progressive impairment represents a health problem; therefore, it is necessary to promote healthy habits in people so that they can enjoy a high quality of life for as long as possible.
Objective: To address the physical status changes in sedentary women before and after their participation in an exercise program.
Methodology: Prospective study, addressing the physical status of 47, 45-60-year-old, sedentary women before and after an exercise program. The SPSS v16 was used to obtain central tendency, dispersion, and correlation data.
Results: In the first assessment, strength, hip flex-elasticity, and hand flex-elasticity were found to be the most impaired. In the second assessment, the physical capacities which showed statistically significant average increments were: strength (1.2 kg), visual reaction velocity (1.1 msec), trunk flex-elasticity (3.6 cm), and hand flex-elasticity (0.9 cm).
Discussion: We agree with Sanchez Pinilla that the capacity to improve physical performance will depend on the quantity and type of exercise involved.
Conclusion: Considering the results, this study can be a reference to help analyze the effects of exercise on the physical status.
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