title: Cardiovascular responses to exercise in Nigerian women.
abstract: Forty-two sedentary Nigerian women participated in the exercise programme aimed at investigating the value of two different training methods in influencing resting systolic and diastolic blood pressures and heart rate. The subjects were randomly divided into three groups. Group I (15 subjects) exercised under Interval Training Protocol (ITP). Group 2 (15 subjects) exercised under Continuous Training Protocol (CTP). The last group (12 subjects) was the control. The training period lasted 12 weeks. Data analysis using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed significant differences between the pre- and post-training resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as the heart rate measurements. The level of significance for the three cardiovascular variables was 0.001. The interval training group demonstrated superior cardiovascular responses over that of the continuous training group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical and Health Education, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Oluseye
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria