Abstract
We developed a fitness assessment test battery to help evaluate individual performance in untrained individuals. In the current paper, we will discuss how the heart rate has evolved in two groups of men and women over a period of 120 days, during which the subjects followed a standardised training protocol. For our research, we monitored the heart rate of each subject during a standardised treadmill test. We used a test that we developed especially for untrained individuals, which required them to walk on a treadmill with a 15% incline for 10 minutes, at a constant speed of 5 km/h. We tested the subjects on days 1, 60 and 120. After conducting our experiment, we found a decrease in resting heart rate of 6.4 beats per minute in men and 3.4 beats per minute in women. Exercise heart rate recorded a drop of 9.4 beats per minute in the male group and 8.8 beats per minute in the female group throughout the 120 days of the training programme. We noted that the group of men recorded a greater improvement in resting heart rate than the group of women, with a difference of 4.84%, while exercise heart rate had almost similar values, with a difference of only 0.03% between the two groups at the end of the 120 days of the test period.
Highlights
We aim to develop methods and means to make the impact of exercise programmes more efficient on the fitness components, firstly to increase the performance of a workout and secondly to allow sedentary people to integrate into exercise programmes
That is why we applied the following: systematic observation, through which we monitored a series of parameters and the results obtained by the subjects, like resting heart rate and exercise heart rate; continuous observation, through which we monitored the evolution of the subjects and how they got involved in the training schedules
When comparing the differences between the first test and the second test, we found a decrease of 2.72% in resting heart rate and a decrease of 4.49% in exercise heart rate, meaning a drop of 1.9 beats per minute at rest and 3.4 beats per minute during exercise
Summary
We live in a society where human motor skills are increasingly put in the background (Tremblay et al, 2010) largely due to technological advances, which places people in the position of no longer needing to use their physical energy to meet their daily needs and tasks. This translates into a narrowing of the time the locomotor system is used, which contributes to a regression of its function (Jebb & Moore, 1999; Myers et al, 2004). We aim to develop methods and means to make the impact of exercise programmes more efficient on the fitness components, firstly to increase the performance of a workout and secondly to allow sedentary people to integrate into exercise programmes
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