The Effect of Alternating and Continuing Aerobic Exercise on the Systolic Blood Pressure and the Maximum Diastolic Blood Pressure and the Resting Heart Rate of the Patients after Coronary Artery Bypas

Cardiovascular diseases are the main reason for death of men and women. Cardiac rehabilitation results in reduction of effects and faster recovery of health and desired performance through educating and psychological supporting of the patient. This current study aims to compare the effect of two kinds of alternating and continuing exercises on the selected physiological cardiovascular indicators in the patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery including the resting heart rate, systolic blood pressure and maximum diastolic blood pressure. The methodology of current research is semi-empirical with proposing a pretest-posttest with the control group. The exercise program includes 24 sessions, 3 days a week and for 1 hour per session. The participants were 10 women patients and 20 men patients, and they were at the second level of cardiac rehabilitation and they were put randomly in 3 groups consisting 15 individuals (alternating exercise, continuing exercise and control). The ANOVA test was used for comparing the effect of exercises and Tukey’s test was used for the significant difference. For all the tests the significance level was p? 0.05. The results showed that the continuing exercises had a significant difference on the indicators of systolic blood pressure, the maximum diastolic blood pressure and resting heart rate (p=0.000). Also, the alternating exercises resulted in a significant difference in the mean systolic and diastolic resting blood pressure and the resting heart rate.