a variety of anthropometric and training characteristics have been identified as predictor variables for race performance in endurance and ultra-endurance athletes. anthropometric characteristics such as skin-fold thicknesses, body fat, circumferences and length of limbs, body mass, body height, and body mass index were bi-variately related to race performance in endurance athletes such as swim...

abstract introduction: cardiovascular fitness as the ability of the system - respiratory and skeletal muscle to achieve a certain level of activity is defined as, where after spinal cord injury can be reduced through exercise can increase this capacity. objective: the objective of this study, veterans with spinal cord injury spirometric indices in various athletic sports (archery, wheelchairran...

a number of studies have examined the role of aerobic exercise and evidence suggests this may be an effective therapy for premenstrual syndrome (pms). the aim of this study was to assess the pms symptoms between swimmer and non-swimmer female students. two hundred eighty subjects were studied. one hundred forty subjects were swimmers, while 140 were normal sedentary controls. duration of swimmi...

conclusions these findings indicate that rehydration with honey drink improves running performance and glucose metabolism compared to plain water in the heat. thus, honey drink can be recommended for rehydration purpose for athletes who compete in the heat. results running distance in run-2 covered by the subjects in the honey drink hd trial (3420 ± 350 m) was significantly (p < 0.01) longer co...

Objective(s):Lectin-like low density lipoprotein receptor (LOX-1) has pivot role in vascular complications, which is upregulated in numerous pathological conditions. Since exercise has beneficial effects in prevention of hyperlipidemic complications, present study examined protective effects of aerobic exercise through reduction of LOX-1 expression in heart during dyslipidemia. Materials and M...