EFFECTS OF CONTINUOUS AND INTERVAL EXERCISE TRAINING ON BLOOD PRESSURE, BODY WEIGHT AND PERCENT BODY FAT OF OVERWEIGHT ADULT NIGERIANS
EFFECTS OF CONTINUOUS AND INTERVAL EXERCISE TRAINING ON BLOOD PRESSURE, BODY WEIGHT AND PERCENT BODY FAT OF OVERWEIGHT ADULT NIGERIANS
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2013-01
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SULEIMAN, USMAN OMEIZA
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Sedentary lifestyle, especially inactivity, has been shown to promote several disease risk factors, like high blood pressure, diabetes, overweight and obesity. Health professionals and exercise scientists became interested to find out the effects of several modes of training on these disease risk factors. This study was conducted to find out and compare the effects of 12 weeks of continuous and interval training on blood pressure, body weight and percent body fat of overweight male and female adults in Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, a total of 90 overweight male and female volunteer subjects, without any contraindications to participate in this research, were randomly selected from among those participating in regular exercise at old parade ground, Area 10, Garki, Abuja, to serve as subjects in the study. They were randomly divided into three groups of continuous and interval groups which underwent their respective training programmes for 12 weeks, and a control group that did not undergo any structured training. All the subjects were tested before starting the training, after 6 weeks and 12 weeks of training for their blood pressure, body weight and percent body fat. The findings of this study revealed significant decrease due to continuous and interval training in blood pressure, body weight and percent body fat of overweight male and female adults in Nigeria. The results further showed insignificant differences between continuous and interval training in their effects on the selected variables. However, significant decrease in percent body fat was found only after 12 weeks of training and not after 6 weeks of training. There were no significant differences between overweight male and female adults in their response in selected variables to 12 weeks of continuous and interval training. On the basis of the results of this study, it was recommended that training at moderate intensity should be followed at least thrice a week, for a minimum of 30 minutes in each training session, at least for 12 weeks.12 weeks continuous and interval exercise training prodused signifficant decrease in systolic blood pressure (f=6.9<.01), body weight (f= 78.9 < .01) and percent body fat (f= 75.5 < .01) due to 12 weeks continuous and interval exercise training in adult Nigerians
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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL AND HEALH EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
JANUARY, 2013
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CONTINUOUS,, INTERVAL,, EXERCISE TRAINING,, BLOOD,, PRESSURE,