Abstract
The study was aimed at designing a health exercise program appealing to inactive young men, and then testing the men’s metabolic responses to the program using common diagnostic markers of general health. Six men, aged 22–29 years, took a part in training program to increase their motor performance and improve general health conditions. Body composition parameters, clinical chemistry variables (metabolites, albumin, total protein, ferritin, C reactive protein, lipid profile, ions, and selected enzymes activities) and blood morphology parameters were determined. Motor performance measured before and after a 4-month-long macrocycle indicated an increase in endurance, pace, and agility of the participants. Significant differences were found in analyzed enzymes activities. There was a significant increase in C-reactive protein levels from pre- to post-training. Additionally, changes in hematological biomarkers were seen that suggest erythropoiesis might significantly increase, specifically during the last 2-month-long mesocycles. The proposed training program induced small improvements in endurance, pace, and agility. It was also confirmed that changes in aspartate (AST) and alanine (ALT) activities emerge before any increase in creatine kinase (CK) activity that is important in monitoring of the training loads. Observed changes in red blood cell-related parameters suggest increase in erythropoiesis in the second half of the training cycle.
Highlights
Physical activity (PA) is one of the significant factors positively influencing the body mass index (BMI), body composition, and cardiorespiratory fitness
The aim of this study was to create a training program targeted to physically inactive young men, who were physically active in the past and evaluate the effect of it on wide range of health-related parameters
Motor performances of each individual participant were improved after the 4-month-long training program (Table 1)
Summary
Physical activity (PA) is one of the significant factors positively influencing the body mass index (BMI), body composition, and cardiorespiratory fitness. The benefits of PA on psychosocial and cognitive health have been confirmed [2,3,4]. PA has a beneficial effect on general health conditions and induces metabolic changes that are manifested in hematological changes of clinical biochemistry parameters [5,6,7,8]. Health-Related Fitness (H-RF), which is developed during various training programs, is associated with an improvement of the general well-being. It is worth noting that people who undertake recreational training still require specific training programs to maintain health and acquire proper habits. The promotion of PA as a way of helping to maintain or improve health should minimize the risk of injury, which can occur after
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