STUDY ON HEART RATE BEHAVIOUR IN SEDENTARY WOMEN DURING A STEP @ TONE SESSION
STUDY ON HEART RATE BEHAVIOUR IN SEDENTARY WOMEN DURING A STEP @ TONE SESSION

Summary/Abstract: The dynamics of changes in today’s society entails the need for continuous adaptability and increased resistance to effort and stressors. In the current context, which offers various areas of interest, physical activity should occupy a main place among the concerns of people of all ages for improving the physical endurance of their bodies, especially since the sphere of modern preoccupations leads to a sedentary lifestyle and therefore to obesity – which is really an alarm signal. In performance sport, the use of pulse testers to monitor the training process has expanded, being an accessible field instrument, allowing the effort to be located in a desirable area of effort, each area of effort having different benefits. In the present study, we aim to highlight changes in heart rate (HR) using a Polar pulse tester during a step & tone aerobics session for sedentary young women who have never practised performance sport versus sedentary former elite female athletes and determine whether there is a correlation between their maximum heart rates and body mass indices. There are insufficient studies in the literature on the monitoring of functional parameters such HR during exercise in sedentary young women and hence our interest in making a comparison between the heart rate behaviour for the two aforementioned categories of participants. HR monitoring during leisure activities is crucial, playing an essential role in detecting overload and designing effective interventions, given that each individual’s response to the training stimulus is unique. The Polar device has the advantage of being cheap and easy to use.

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