Several studies have indicated that depressive states may lead to hypokinesia with diminished metabolic rate and energy use. Hypokinesia associated with certain eating behaviors may lead to an unfavorable energy balance that can contribute to the emergence and prevalence of obesity among children and adults. The purpose of the present study was to examine the possibility of reducing depression ...

PURPOSE To validate the Muscle Power Sprint Test (MPST) against the Wingate Anaerobic cycling Test (WAnT) in a group of youth with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Twenty children and adolescents (11 boys and 9 girls; mean age = 14.8 years) with spastic CP, and classified as either level I or II of the Gross Motor Function Classification System, completed the study. RESULTS Very strong signific...

Participation in exercise benefits health and fitness among Intellectual Disability (ID) individuals. Circuit training is one of the programme that can be tailored by manipulating intensity, time types exercise. The purpose present study to examine effects six weeks circuit on anaerobic simple reaction ID Thirty participants with mild moderate were selected from individuals who are registered P...

BACKGROUND Measurement of variables of metabolic gas exchange during exercise is widely used to assess the severity of heart failure. The variables derived however, are potentially dependent on motivation of the patient and duration of exercise. METHODS The data from exercise tests in 23 patients with exertional breathlessness were analysed to derive the following three common indices of exer...

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of 4 months of different training modalities on power, speed, skill and anaerobic capacity in 15-16 year old male basketball players. Thirty five Lithuanian basketball players were randomly assigned into three groups: power endurance group (intermittent exercise, PE, n = 12), general endurance group (continuous exercise, GE, n = 11) and contr...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether changes in the ventilation/carbon dioxide production ratio during early exercise could reliably serve as a surrogate marker for maximal oxygen consumption in heart failure patients. Maximal oxygen consumption is an important determinant of the severity of congestive heart failure with values > 14 ml/kg/min conferring a good 2-year survival. However, many patients ...

Patients with heart failure who have undergone partial left ventriculotomy improve resting left ventricular systolic function, but have limited functional capacity. We studied systolic and diastolic left ventricular function at rest and during submaximal exercise in patients with previous partial left ventriculotomy and in patients with heart failure who had not been operated, matched for maxim...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of muscular power engagement, anaerobic participation, aerobic power level, and energy expenditure on postexercise parasympathetic reactivation. We compared the response of heart rate (HR) after repeated sprinting with that of exercise sessions of comparable net energy expenditure and anaerobic energy contribution. Fifteen moderately trained ...

This study aimed to examine the acute effect of different durations static stretching on heart rate variability (HRV) and, anaerobic capacity moderately physically active men during Wingate test (WAnT) at two pre-exercise periods. Sixty-five healthy young male volunteers performed 10 s (STS) and 30 (LTS) consisting five exercises before WAnT non-consecutive days. HRV was measured pre (60 s), (3...