تاثير تمرين هوازي ركاب زدن با دست روي برخي از عوامل فيزيولوژيكي و تركيب بدني زنان ميانسال

The Effect of Arm Cranking on Some Physiological Factors and Body Composition of Middle - Aged Women

The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of arm cranking on some physiological factors and body composition of middle - aged women. to this purpose 33 middle - aged women who had lumbago (backache) and legacke and were between 35 - 55 years old and they were selected voluntarily by giving questionnaire to them. And these people were randomly divided into two, control and experimental (treatment) groups (19 women in experimental group and 14 women in control group). Then an arm cranking program was designed and was performed for 8 weeks. Resting heart rate, exercising heart rate, recovery heart rate, resting systolic and diastolic blood pressures, body weight, body fat percent and skin fold of areas of biceps, triceps, sub-scapular, abdominal, supra-spinal, front thigh and medial calf were the variants that were studied in this research. The result of the research through the independent test showed that the aerobic training of arm cranking had significant effects on number of resting heart rate, exercising heart rate and recovery heart rate and also on skin fold of the areas of biceps and abdominal (P~O.05). However, resting systolic and diastolic blood pressures, body fat percent, body weight and skin fold of the areas of sub-scapular, triceps, supra-spinal, Front thigh and medial calf didnʹt have any significant changes (P20.05). Considering the effect of aerobic training of arm cranking on the development of some physiological factors and body composition in this research, we can come to this conclusion that doing regular aerobic training with arms can have desirable effects like what were observed in aerobic leg training.