Indoor Exercise Improves Physical Fitness in Aged Subjects

Tong-Yuan Tai ； Ying-Jui Chen ； Yi-Ying Wang

《台灣老年醫學暨老年學雜誌》 9卷2期 (2014/05) Pp. 55-55

https://doi.org/10.29461/TGG.201405_9(2).0098

並列摘要

Objective: To observe the effects of fitness training in aged subjects. Methods: The training course opened to aged subjects who were interested in indoor exercise. The trainers were athletic experts from the college. So for 3 courses were completed with the total participants of 43. Their ages ranged 60-87 years (68.9±7.8years, Mean± SD). The females occupied 81.6%. Each course lasted for 12 weeks. For each week, fitness training was conducted 1.5 hours with various indoor exercise, both standing and sitting in posture. Following tests were carried out before and after fitness training: 2.44-meter up and go test, 30-second chair stand test, hand grip test, back scratch test with right or left hand on, 2-minute step test, chair sit and reach test, and right(left) upper(lower) limb flexibility test. Results: The comparison of data before and after training reveals a significant difference (paired- t test) in following items: 30-second chair stand test (14.9± 5.6 times vs. 19.7±6.8 times, p＜0.001), 2-minute step test(208.9±30.3 times vs. 228.6±39.9 times, p=0.01), chair sit and reach test(31.37±14.12 cm vs. 33.91±13.43 cm, p＜0.013), right upper limb flexibility test (163.07±21.15 degree vs.168.65±17.71 degree, p=0.003). Correlation between age and the change from baseline (Pearson's correlation test) reveals that the data of 30-second chair stand test is negatively correlated (-0.373, p＜0.05). The association between the change of 30-second chair stand test and age is significant after gender adjusted from generalized linear model. Conclusion: The indoor exercise resulted in improvement of physical fitness in aged subjects. Those older in age showed less improvement in 30-second chair stand test.