Effects of Different Exercises Interventions in Post-menopausal Women

Acute and Chronic Health Effects of Different Exercises Interventions in Post-menopausal Women: a Clinical, Controlled and Randomized Study

This study will compare different exercise training protocols on health parameters of postmenopausal women. The hypothesis is that short duration high intensity interval training will promote different effects of long duration moderate intensity training.

Exercise load control still not a consensus as to the most effective strategy for improving health parameters in postmenopausal women. In this way, the volunteers will perform anthropometric and body composition assessments, climacteric symptoms and sleep quality evaluations, blood pressure reactivity, resting blood pressure and heart rate and ambulatorial blood pressure monitoring, before and after 12 weeks of training.

Inclusion Criteria:

• being postmenopausal (amenorrhea of at least 12 months and [FSH]> 40 mlU/ml); be controlled hypertension; not to undergo drug treatment with β-blockers; not make use of sex hormone therapies; do not present physical problems or cardiovascular complications that prevent the performance of physical exercises; present attestation of a cardiologist proving that they are able to perform physical exercises.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Do not attend the collection site on the day and time programmed more than once in the acute phase of the study; missing more than 2 consecutive sessions or 6 alternates in the chronic phase of the study; unable to perform the proposed training protocols; change in drug therapy during the intervention.