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KMID : 0359420190370010017
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Korean Journal of Sports Medicine
2019 Volume.37 No. 1 p.17 ~ p.28
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Effects of Stair Climbing on Blood Pressure, Lipid Profiles, and Physical Fitness
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Moon Jung-Wha
Yoon Yeong-Sook
Lee Hong-Jae
Jeong Tae-Ho
Hwang Young-Hye
Kim Ha-Seong
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of the study is to identify the effects of worker’s stair-climbing on blood pressure, lipid profiles, and physical fitness.
Methods: After recruiting 114 healthy adult women aged 20 to 64 years who have had sedentary for more than 3 months, we divided into two groups: the stair group (SG, n=57) and control group (CG, n=57). SG was supposed to do stair-climbing in daily life like workplace and home for 12 weeks. To investigate the effects of the lifestyle changing of stair-climbing, resting blood pressure, heart rate (HR), and lipid profiles were measured before and after 12-week stair-climbing. Also, physical fitness items such as peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak), back muscle strength, sit and reach, isokinetic strength of knee joint, static and dynamic balance were measured.
Results: As a result of the 12-week lifestyle changing of stair-climbing, resting systolic blood pressure (SBP; p＜0.05) and HR (p＜0.01) were significantly decreased in SG. Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) was significantly reduced in SG (p＜0.05). There was a significant improvement in the VO2peak (p＜0.001). There were a significant improvement in back strength (p＜0.001) and bilateral knee extensor (60˚/sec: p＜0.05, p＜0.01, 180˚/sec: p＜0.01, p＜0.01) and knee flexor (180˚/sec: p＜0.01, p＜0.05) of isokinetic strength. There were significant improvements in static balance of one leg standing eye-closed (p＜0.05) and dynamic balance of left/right velocity (p＜0.01), forward/backward velocity (p＜0.01).
Conclusion: In this study, 12 weeks of lifestyle changing of stair-climbing improved SBP, resting HR, LDL-C, VO2peak, back and knee strength, static and dynamic balance as well as increased physical activity volume of stair-climbing in the daily living.
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KEYWORD
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Blood pressure, Lipids, Peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak), Stair-climbing, Strength
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