Exercise for Preventing the Metabolic Syndrome in Latinoamerican Amerindians

Universidad Santo Tomas28 enrolled

Overview

Despite exercise training decrease blood fasting glicaemy in 'average' terms, there is a wide inter-individual variability after exercise training explored mainly in adults but not in adults with prediabetes comorbidities. Thus, is yet unknown the effects and influence of the concurrent training (CT) eliciting responders (R) and non-responders (NR) cases (i.e., percentage of subjects who experienced a non-change/worsened response after training in some metabolic outcomes).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Obesity Cardiovascular Risk Factor Physical Activity

Interventions

Concurrent training (CT)BEHAVIORAL

The core part of each session included resistance training (RT) followed by aerobic training exercises (for 50 and 30 minutes, respectively) and was preceded and followed by a 5-minute warm-up and cool-down with callisthenic movements.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 30 YearsMax age: 59 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Written informed consent * Interested in improving health and fitness Exclusion Criteria: * Cardiovascular contraindications to exercise * History of stroke, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, muscle-skeletal disorders * Smoking * A compliance rate to the exercise program ≥ 70% was required for the participants in the intervention group to be included in the statistical analyses.

Locations (1)

Cristian Alvarez

Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile