Comparative study of acute effect on blood sugar in water gym practitioner’s elderly

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the behavior of the glucose in acute exercise of Aqua aerobic in practicing elderly. In one shows of 9 subjects (9 women) the age of 60 ± 8, average weight 76.26 kg and average height of 157 cm, applied to the same group two lessons, the first lesson, aerobic with rectangular load without equipment and the second lesson, interval with the use of gloves, scale of Borg for the control the intensity of the exercise and anamnese investigation of the 24-hour, the subjects were in twelve-hour fast when collected glucose capillary before and after the two types of the physical activity. The samples of blood had been analyzed by package SPSS 13.0 applied a T-test: collect one: the average the glucose in the pre-test was 78.22 ± 4.44; s.1.48; the average the glucose in the post-test was 69.67 ± 6.40; s. 2.13; collect two: the average the glucose in the pre-test 70.67 ± 6.42; s. 2.14; the average the glucose in the post-test 62.67 ± 6.36; s. 2.12. The significant level adopted in this study was p > 0.05. Perhaps it did not have significant differences in the reply of the glucose enters the two types of the physical activity, for being the physical execution relatively limited for this group, however had difference in the relation of collect one. Being able to conclude that the aqua aerobics for the elderly seems to favor the control of the glucose, acting as prevention to the development of the Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome.