KINESIOL 4SS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Indirect Calorimetry, Stroke Volume, Spirometer
12 Apr 2016
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Impact of lifelong exercise dose" on let ventricular compliance and distensibility. Sifening of let ventricle with age which contributes to hypertension, heart failure. Exercise is a preventaive strategy, maintain youthful lv compliance if you have lifelong history of vigorous exercise training vs healthy sedentary adults. Engaging in 6-7 exercise sessions per week at compeiive levels is not pracical. Hypothesis: lower, less frequent dose" of exercise training might sill confer similar beneits in regards to lv when coninues over lifeime. Healthy seniors >64, screened for lifelong paterns of exercise training (endurance) Sedentary exercised no more than 1/week during the previous 25 years (1 session=30min) Recruited from ccls (cooper center longitudinal study: healthy subjects saying they exercise for past 20 years. Sedentary populaion recruited from senior groups such as bingo, gardening, volunteer non cooper clinic. All subjects went through screening protocol: medical history and physical examinaion, no illness, tobacco use, diabetes, hypertension (135/85)
