%0 Journal Article %T Acute effect of resistance, aerobic and combined exercise circuits on blood pressure of hypertensive women Efecto agudo de circuitos de ejercicios aer車bicos, contra resistencia o combinados sobre la presi車n arterial de mujeres con hipertensi車n %A Elizabeth Carpio Rivera %A Andrea Solera Herrera %J Pensar en Movimiento : Revista de Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud %D 2012 %I Universidad de Costa Rica %X Carpio-Rivera, E. y Solera-Herrera, A. (2012). Acute effect of resistance, aerobic and combined exercise circuits on blood pressure of hypertensive women. Pensar en Movimiento: Revista de Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud, 10 (2), 1-12. The purpose of this study was to observe the acute effect of different exercises executed in circuit on the resting blood pressure of hypertensive women. Nine trained persons (aged 53.22 ㊣ 4.67 years), hypertensive but medicated with enalapril, participated in four training treatments, each carried out on different days under a randomized repeated measures design: (1) A: aerobic training condition (steps training); (2) R: resistance training condition (machine training) (3) AR: aerobic and resistance training condition (alternating aerobic and resistance training every 30 seconds) (4) C: control condition (30 minutes resting). Exercise conditions were performed during 30 minutes at 70% of maximum heart rate and resting blood pressure was measured 5 minutes before and immediately after each condition. A two-way analysis of variance detected a significant interaction between conditions and measurements (p<0.05) on systolic blood pressure (sBP). Tukey Post-hoc analyses showed a significant increase of sBP following the three exercise conditions (A: +19 mmHg; R: +28 mmHg; AR: +22 mmHg), while the sBP remained unchanged during the control condition. In contrast, there was no significant effect of any type of exercise on diastolic blood pressure (dBP). In conclusion, the acute elevation in sBP following this type of resistance exercise was similar to the increase produced by aerobic exercise. Carpio-Rivera, E. y Solera-Herrera, A. (2012). Efecto agudo de circuitos de ejercicios aer車bicos, contra resistencia o combinados sobre la presi車n arterial de mujeres con hipertensi車n. Pensar en Movimiento: Revista de Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud, 10 (2), 1-12. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar el efecto agudo de los diferentes tipos de ejercicios realizados en circuito sobre la presi車n arterial de reposo en mujeres con hipertensi車n. Nueve participantes entrenadas (edad 53.22 ㊣ 4.67 a os), hipertensas, medicadas con enalapril, participaron en cuatro condiciones de ejercicio realizadas en d赤as diferentes, siguiendo un dise o de investigaci車n de medidas repetidas aleatorizadas: (1) A: ejercicio aer車bico (realizado en steps), (2) R: ejercicio contra resistencia (trabajo de m芍quinas), (3) AR: ejercicio combinado (alternando steps y m芍quinas cada 30 segundos) y (4) C: condici車n control (30 minutos en reposo). Las condiciones de ejerc %K hipertensi車n %K ejercicio contra resistencia %K entrenamiento aer車bico %K circuito %U http://www.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/pem/article/view/3454