Women’s physical status, before and after an exercise program

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Introduction: Physical status is the expression of several body functions, and its progressive impairment represents a health problem; therefore, it is necessary to promote healthy habits in people so that they can enjoy a high quality of life for aslong as possible. Objective: To address the physical status changes in sedentary women before and after their participation in an exercise program. Methodology: Prospective study, addressing the physical status of 47, 45-60 year-old, sedentarywomen before and after an exercise program. The SPSS v16 was used to obtain central tendency, dispersion, and correlation data. Results: In the first assessment, strength, hip flex-elasticity, and hand flex-elasticity were found to be themost impaired. In the second assessment, the physical capacities which showed statistically significant average increments were: strength (1.2 kg), visual reactionvelocity (1.1 msec), trunk flex-elasticity (3.6 cm), and hand flex-elasticity (0.9 cm). Discussion: We agr

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