Date of Award
2015
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.H.K.
Department
Kinesiology
Keywords
blood pressure, handgrip, isometric
Supervisor
McGowan, Cheri
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
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Abstract
The primary purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that in young, normotensive men and women, 10 weeks of isometric handgrip (IHG) training (3X/ week) would 1) elicit reductions in ambulatory blood pressure (BP), concomitant to reductions in resting BP, and 2) these reductions would be predicted by cardiovascular reactivity to standard laboratory stress tasks (e.g. IHG task, IHGT; a 2 minute sustained isometric contraction). Reductions in 24-hour, daytime, and nighttime systolic ambulatory BP were observed following IHG training in both men (n=13) and women (n=11, P0.05), were associated with pre-training systolic BP reactivity to the IHGT (P
Recommended Citation
Somani, Yasina Begum, "The effect of a 10 week isometric handgrip training protocol on blood pressure (resting and ambulatory) and cardiovascular reactivity in young, normotensive individuals" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5285.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5285