To maintain health and improve quality of life is the most important perspective in elder's welfare. Moderate to heavy intensity of walking exercise has the effect of lowering the blood pressure. Controlling the cardiovascular risk factors would decrease the coronary impairment With overweight elders, whether programmed moderate intensity exercise training would improve the risk factors remain unanswered. Six overweight elders performed daily moderate aerobic bicycle, treadmill, arm ergometer exercise for 6 weeks. Exercise prescription was determined by sub-maximal exercise testing. Training included intensity of 60%-80% of maximal heart rate, 30 minutes duration, 5-6 days per week. Non-parametric analysis of Wilcoxon matched-paired signed-ranks test and linear regression analysis were used for analysis. It showed that body weight, body fat, body mass index had significant decreased after training (p<0.05). The decrease in blood pressure over 30 times training period was significant on 2 subjects (p<0.05). The author concluded that programmed aerobic exercise training was worthy to apply on overweight elders.
To maintain health and improve quality of life is the most important perspective in elder's welfare. Moderate to heavy intensity of walking exercise has the effect of lowering the blood pressure. Controlling the cardiovascular risk factors would decrease the coronary impairment With overweight elders, whether programmed moderate intensity exercise training would improve the risk factors remain unanswered. Six overweight elders performed daily moderate aerobic bicycle, treadmill, arm ergometer exercise for 6 weeks. Exercise prescription was determined by sub-maximal exercise testing. Training included intensity of 60%-80% of maximal heart rate, 30 minutes duration, 5-6 days per week. Non-parametric analysis of Wilcoxon matched-paired signed-ranks test and linear regression analysis were used for analysis. It showed that body weight, body fat, body mass index had significant decreased after training (p<0.05). The decrease in blood pressure over 30 times training period was significant on 2 subjects (p<0.05). The author concluded that programmed aerobic exercise training was worthy to apply on overweight elders.