Contribution of aerobic step and Pilates exercises to life quality increase

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ancuța Lupău ◽  
Mihaela-Liana Faur ◽  
Corina Pantea
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Muscular Tissue ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Body Weight Index ◽  
Functional Deterioration ◽  
Structure And Functions ◽  
Life Work ◽  
Muscular Tissues

Abstract Physical activity practiced on a constant, regular basis contributes directly to the improvement of the structure and functions of different organs and body systems. It can also counteract the appearance of some anatomic and functional deterioration and contribute to the correction of certain deficiencies caused by improper conditions of life/work in people’s life. This study analyses two forms of physical exercise - Aerobic Step and Pilates. The goal of the study is to identify the effects of practicing Aerobic Step and Pilates exercises on the bodies of those who practice these forms of physical exercise. The hypothesis of the research is that practicing on constant/regular basis different types of aerobic exercises combined with efficient nutrition ensures optimum physical condition for everyday activities. The activity was carried out at the “Beauty Centre” aerobic hall from Timisoara, Romania. The study was carried out between February and May 2013 on a sample of 25 people subjected to anthropometric and functional measurements (size, weight, hip perimeter and body weight index, percentage of muscular tissue) both before (initial test - It) and after (final test - Ft) Aerobic Step and Pilates programmes. Results show the efficiency of these programmes as pointed out by the diminution of hip perimeter, by normal IMC, and by the increase of the active muscular tissues.

scholarly journals A comparative study of the voice-related quality of life among Egyptian elderly with and without voice complaints

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesreen Fathi Mahmoud ◽  
Huda Zahran ◽  
Sherif Abdelmonam
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Voice

Abstract Background This study focuses on the self-perception of the voice in the elderly as assessed by the Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL) questionnaire. This work aimed to compare differences in the voice-related quality of life outcomes between (1) elderly with and without voice disorders, (2) female and male elderly with voice disorders, and (3) different types of voice disorders, and to explore the correlation between the V-RQOL and perceptual analysis done by the clinician. Forty-three dysphonic and 44 non-dysphonic elderly filled out the Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL) protocol that analyzes the impact of dysphonia on life quality. Vocal perceptual assessment of each subject with dysphonia was made by three voice therapists, followed by a flexible nasofibrolaryngoscope. Results A significant statistical difference was found between the means of total V-RQOL scores and its subdomains for each group (dysphonic and non-dysphonic). No significant differences were found between male and female elderly with dysphonia. The statistical analysis showed a significant correlation with the vocal assessment made by the clinicians and the V-RQOL self-assessment made by the subjects. Conclusions This study provides valuable information regarding the risk factors that contribute to vocal quality in the elderly population. Our results revealed that different types of voice disorders are common among the elderly population with significant negative effects on quality of life. It was observed that the poorest score on the V-RQOL was for functional voice disorders, followed by neoplastic lesions, whereas MAPLs had the best score on the V-RQOL.

Different types of physical exercise in brain activity of older adults: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
pp. 111672
Author(s):  
Sandra Aires Ferreira ◽  
Angelica Miki Stein ◽  
Natã Gomes de Lima Stavinski ◽  
Denilson de Castro Teixeira ◽  
Marcos Roberto Queiroga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Different Types

scholarly journals Review of the relationship between depression and life satisfaction among university students

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Asra Babayigit ◽  
Zihniye Okray
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Review Study ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Day By Day

Depression is one of the most commonly observed medical conditions. Studies about the depression and life satisfaction is increasing day by day. Untreated depression may lead to unexpected earlier deaths and has negative impacts on the patient’s general health conditions. On the other hand with the proper treatment, life quality could be enhanced. Moreover life satisfaction level is also seen as an important factor which is related with life quality and which is usually coordinated together with the depression. There are different types and explanations of depression. In this study, we tried to explain the prevalence, diagnosis criterias, risk factors, etiology and description of depression. In addition to this, relationship between depression and life satisfaction is tried to be explained. Purpose of this review study is to explain depression, it’s risk factors and the importance of life satisfaction.

scholarly journals Effects of acute and chronic physical exercise and stress on different types of memory in rats

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pâmela Billig Mello ◽  
Fernando Benetti ◽  
Martín Cammarota ◽  
Iván Izquierdo
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Open Field ◽  
Spatial Learning ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Chronic Exercise ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Male Wistar Rats

Here we study the effect of acute and chronic physical exercise in a treadmill and of daily stress (because forced exercise involves a degree of stress) during 2 or 8 weeks on different types of memory in male Wistar rats. The memory tests employed were: habituation in an open field, object recognition and spatial learning in the Morris water maze. Daily foot-shock stress enhanced habituation learning after 2 but not after 8 weeks; it hindered both short- (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) of the recognition task at 2 weeks but only STM after 8 weeks and had no effect on spatial learning after either 2 or 8 weeks. Acute but not chronic exercise also enhanced habituation in the open field and hindered STM and LTM in the recognition task. Chronic exercise enhanced one important measure of spatial learning (latency to escape) but not others. Our findings indicate that some care must be taken when interpreting effects of forced exercise on brain parameters since at least part of them may be due to the stress inherent to the training procedure.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1913 ◽  
Vol 86 (591) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Time ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Great Accuracy ◽  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
Muscular Tissue ◽  
Achromatic Lens ◽  
Contractile Tissue ◽  
Life Work ◽  
Early Training

Joseph Lister was born at Upton in Essex on April 5, 1827, and like many other men who have attained great eminence, belonged to a Quaker family. His father, Joseph Jackson Lister, who was in business in London, occupied his leisure time in scientific researches, more especially in researches in connection with the perfection of the microscope; indeed, it is to his researches that we owe the final perfection of the achromatic lens, which has proved such an essential instrument for microscopical work. He was a man of great accuracy of thought, and a hard worker, and his influence on Lord Lister's character and career was very profound; indeed, Lord Lister himself was never weary of stating how much he owed to his father's early training. It may be noted, in passing, that his father was himself a Fellow of the Royal Society, and that his brother and one of his nephews have also received that honour. Lister's medical training commenced at University College, and while there he came under the influence of Sharpey, who was then Professor of Physiology, and of Thomas Graham, who was Professor of Chemistry. Sharpey especially exercised great influence in directing his thoughts to the study of Physiological problems, which ultimately formed the basis of his great life work; indeed, while still a student he made observations on the contractile tissue of the iris which attracted a considerable amount of attention among physiologists, both in this country and abroad, and he followed that up by work on the muscular tissue of the skin. Both these papers were published in the 'Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,' in 1853.

Comparative studies of meat V. Factors affecting the iodine number of the fat from the fatty and muscular tissues of cattle

1956 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Callow ◽  
S. R. Searle
Keyword(s):  
Iodine Number ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Muscular Tissue ◽  
Fatty Tissue ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Rectangular Hyperbola ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Line Relationship ◽  
Muscular Tissues

1. Carcasses of twenty-one fat cattle (from six cows, ten steers and five heifers, aged from 12 months to 12 years and representing seven breeds) have been dissected into nine joints, and the fatty and muscular tissue from each joint dissected and analysed for fat. The iodine number of each sample of fat has been determined.2. The fat in fatty tissues ranged from 28·3 to 96·7%, and in muscular tissues from 1·3 to 14·2%. Iodine numbers of fat from fatty tissues ranged from 34·0 to 69·0 and those of fat from muscular tissues from 45·9 to 73·2.3. By an analysis of covariance it has been possible to reduce these data to two families of regression lines—those for fatty tissue and those for muscular tissue.4. The equations for fatty tissue have the following generalized form:I.N. = AFT + CFT + JFT + b1F/FT,where AFT = 55·6 ± 1·7 and is a general constant,CFT is a series of constants for the various carcasses and ranges from +12·6 to −6·7,JFT is a series of constants for the various joints and ranges from +6·6 to −10·3,b1 is a general constant with the value −0·052(± 0·025),F/FT is the percentage of fat in any given sample of fatty tissue, and I.N. is its iodine number.5. A similar set of equations has been deduced for muscular tissue. Here, however, the relation between iodine number and percentage of fat is a rectangular hyperbola. Consequently, the inverse (Z) of the percentage of fat (in order to get a straight-line relationship) has been used.

Comparative studies of meat. VIII. The percentage of fat in the fatty and muscular tissues of steers and the iodine number of the extracted fat, as affected by breed and level of nutrition

1962 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Callow
Keyword(s):  
Iodine Number ◽  
Subcutaneous Tissue ◽  
Subcutaneous Fat ◽  
Local Temperature ◽  
Reverse Direction ◽  
Muscular Tissue ◽  
Fatty Tissue ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Best Fit ◽  
Muscular Tissues

1. An investigation has been carried out concerning the percentage of fat in the subcutaneous and intermuscular fatty tissues and in the muscular tissues, and the iodine number of the extracted fat from eight anatomical joints (foreshin, neck, shoulder, thorax, loin, pelvis, leg and hindshin) and from the perinephric fatty tissue and psoas muscles of the carcasses from twenty-four animals. The animals were from three breeds (Hereford, Dairy Shorthorn and Friesian) and were on four levels of nutrition—high-high and medium-high, and high-medium and medium-medium. The first two groups—finished on concentrates—were younger than the second two groups—finished on grass.2. Using an analysis of variance for the resultant data for percentage of fat and iodine number, it was found that breed had affected the percentage of fat in the tissues of the various joints significantly—on the average the order was Shorthorn (highest), Hereford and Friesian (lowest). This result could be predicted from the fact that this was the order of fatness of the carcasses (as measured by the percentage of fatty tissue in the carcass—see Callow, 1961).3. The data for iodine number showed no significant effect for breed in either the subcutaneous or intermuscular tissues. The significant effect of breed in the case of muscle could be attributed to significant differences in the overall level of fatness (see Callow, 1961) of the carcasses of the three breeds.4. A good correlation existed between the average percentage of fat in a joint and the average iodine number of fat extracted when the data for various joints was used to calculate straight lines of best fit. (In the case of muscular tissue, it was necessary to use the inverse of the percentage of fat to calculate the average—because the relation between the percentage of fat in muscular tissue and its iodine number is a rectangular hyperbola.)5. Using such lines of best fit, it was possible to show that certain joints had tissues which gave abnormal values for iodine number. Thus, deepseated tissues, like psoas muscle and kidney fat, had unexpectedly low values, whilst tissues from the hindshin had unexpectedly high values. This was attributed to the effect of local temperature—a high local temperature in the body giving a lower iodine number and a low temperature a higher iodine number than would otherwise be expected. The special case of subcutaneous fat from the thorax—with a higher iodine number than expected—is explained by the presence of brisket fat (which has a high iodine number).6. The data were used graphically to show the effect of growth gradients, thus the average percentage of fat in all the tissues is lowest in fore- and hindshins and highest in thorax (muscular and intermuscular tissues) and in the pelvis (subcutaneous tissue). Similar effects, but in the reverse direction, were shown by average values for iodine numbers.7. There were systematic differences in the percentage of fat in the subcutaneous and intermuscular tissues of joints and in the iodine number of the extracted fat. These too showed marked growth gradients. Although the percentage of fat in the intermuscular tissue was greater than that in the subcutaneous tissue in the fore- and hindshins, it was less in the thorax, loin, pelvis and leg. In spite of this, the iodine number of the subcutaneous fat was always higher than that of the intermuscular fat. This is attributed to the former being a colder tissue than the latter.8. It was shown that the relation between iodine number and percentage of fat in the various joints was different for the animals finished on grass (highmoderate and moderate-moderate levels of nutrition) as compared with those finished on concentrates (high-high and moderate-high levels). This was attributed to the rate of fattening being greater in the second case and to this giving rise to lower iodine numbers.9. Beyond this effect of rate of fattening, no reason could be found for the fact that the general level of iodine numbers showed variation from animal to animal.10. The extreme variation in percentage of fat in the tissues was (a) muscular tissue from 1·3 to 14·5%, (b) intermuscular tissue from 29·5 to 82·7%, and (c) subcutaneous tissue from 25·2 to 89·8%. For iodine number the variation was (a) 50·0 to 73·9, (b) 42·9 to 67·9 and (c) 46·3 to 67·9 It is thus clear that beef can be a very variable foodstuff.

Homeostasis Model Assessment-Adiponectin: the role of different types of physical exercise in obese adolescents

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel M. da Silveira Campos ◽  
Deborah C. Landi Masquio ◽  
Flávia Campos Corgosinho ◽  
Priscila de Lima Sanches ◽  
Aline de Piano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Model Assessment ◽  
Homeostasis Model Assessment ◽  
Obese Adolescents ◽  
Different Types

scholarly journals Influence of dynamic and static physical activity features on respiratory system of junior schoolgirls

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 870-874
Author(s):  
M M Zayneev ◽  
N I Ziyatdinova ◽  
O P Martiyanov ◽  
T L Zefirov
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Respiratory System ◽  
Cycle Time ◽  
Respiratory Function ◽  
Respiratory Function Tests ◽  
School Year ◽  
Function Tests ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Breath Cycle

Aim. To study the influence of different types of physical exercise on components of gases convective transport in junior schoolgirls. Methods. Twenty two 9 year old schoolgirls were included. The functional condition of respiratory system was estimated based on pulmonary function tests and respiratory volumes. Isometric physical exercise test was performed by the left hand compression of a dynamometer with the effort equal of 50% from maximum possible effort within 1 minute. Dynamic physical load was dosed as 1,0 W per 1 kg of body weight while pedalling a stationary exercise bicycle ergometer. Statistical difference between groups was determined using Student’s t-statistics. Results. Influence of dynamic and static physical exercise on respiratory function tests in 9 year old schoolgirls was studied at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the school year. The comparative analysis of respiratory function tests in 9 year old schoolgirls at the beginning of academic year showed that isometric physical exercise caused the breath rate increase, and dynamic physical exercise led to decrease of this parameter. At the same time both types of physical exercise caused decrease in expiratory time to total breath cycle time ratio. In the middle of the academic year isometric physical exercise caused the breath rate decrease and maximum voluntary ventilation increase. As a whole, both in the middle and at the end of the academic year the respiratory system of 9 year old schoolgirls reacted adequately in reply to different types of physical exercise to optimize the performance. Conclusion. The most unfavorable reaction of respiratory system in 9 year old schoolgirls in reply to static and dynamic physical exercise at the beginning of the academic year was registered as a decrease of expiratory time to total breath cycle time ratio. The optimal reaction of respiratory system in 9 year old schoolgirls in reply to dynamic physical exercise was registered both in the middle and at the end of the school year, to static physical exercise - at the end of the school year.

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