title: The metabolic responses of slideboard exercise in females.
abstract: Recently, slideboard exercise training has been introduced as a mode of aerobic training. The purpose of the investigation was to determine the acute cardiovascular and metabolic responses to slideboard exercise. Subjects consisted of 20 healthy females with a mean age of 26.5 +/- 7.9 years, and a VO2max of 40.8 +/- 5.6 ml.kg-1.min-1. The results of the investigation showed that 10 min of a commercially produced slideboard routine elicited mean heart rate (HR) responses ranging from 160 to 168 beats.min-1 and VO2 values of 27.5 to 33.5 ml.kg-1.min-1. A sub-group of 10 subjects was also evaluated while performing sliding exercise at different sliding rates (SR). Subjects performed the standard slide technique at metronome cadences of SR-40, SR-50, and SR-60 slide.min-1. As sliding rate increased so did HR and VO2. The subjects demonstrated mean responses of approximately 55 to 81% of VO2max for the slower to the most rapid sliding rates, respectively. Compared to treadmill exercise at the same oxygen consumption levels, the heart rates for sliding were approximately 15% higher. Slideboard exercise can be an alternative mode of aerobic training.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010465:Perception; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012119:Respiration; D013997:Time Factors