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KMID : 0379720120260030417
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2012 Volume.26 No. 3 p.417 ~ p.427
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Effects of a 12-week Combined Exercise Training Program on the Body Composition, Physical Fitness Levels, and Metabolic Syndrome Profiles of Obese Women
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Ha Chang-Ho
Ha Sung
So Wi-Young
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a 12-week combined exercise training program on the body composition, physical fitness levels, and metabolic syndrome profiles of obese women.
Methods: Twelve obese women were assigned to the combined exercise training program group. The women underwent training for 70-90 min/d, three times per week for a period of 12 weeks. Paired samples t-tests were performed using SPSS ver. 17.0 for analysis of the results.
Results: The results of this study showed that body-composition parameters such as weight, fat-free mass, body fat mass, body-mass index, body fat, waist-hip ratio, basal metabolic rate, and intra-abdominal fat, physical fitness parameters such as muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, and cardiac endurance, and metabolic syndrome biomarkers such as triglyceride levels, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, glucose levels, systolic blood pressure, and waist circumference before participation the training program differed significantly from those after participation in the training program (p<0.05). However, diastolic blood pressure before participation in the training program did not differ significantly from that after participation in the training program (p>0.05).
Conclusion: We concluded that a 12-week combined exercise training program could be a good exercise program for improvement of the body composition, physical fitness levels, and metabolic syndrome profiles of obese women.
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KEYWORD
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Body composition, Combined exercise, Metabolic syndrome, Obese women, Physical fitness
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