Effect of Pilates Training on Fasting Blood Glucuse, Blood Pressure and Resting Heart Rate of High School Teachers in Boditi Secondary Schoo
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Pilates is a conscious approach in exercise, stimulating awareness of body structure, muscle recruitment, and body movement. The purpose of present study was to investigate“Effect of Pilates training on fasting blood glucose,blood pressure and resting heart rate of high school teachers in Boditi secondary school ”. The study employed experimental research design. To achieve the purpose of the study, twenty eight male teachers take part and had assigned randomly in to two equal groups. Both EG (n=14) and CG (14). The experimental group taken eight week Pilates training. Both groups had taken pre and posttest and all subjects participated in physiological variable test: fasting blood glucose was measured by using glucometer, blood pressure by using sphygmomanometer and finally resting heart rate by radial pulse measurement. The data collected from the study subjects was analyzed using SPSS version-25 software by paired t-test with the level of significant 0.05 while cohesive d> 0.8 was used to consider practical significance. The results showed Pilates training has significantly improved on fasting blood glucose, blood pressure and resting heart rate in EG (P<0.05). Therefore, Pilates training have an improvement on BG, BP and RHR.
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:19876
Author: SADAM GARMAMO
Language: English
Topic: Physical Activity and Health
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7090760336
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