Effects of Exercise Training on Vascular Endothelial Function of Patients Submitted to Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

The program of exercise training (ET) was employed for 6 consecutive months with 3 sessions per week. The training of physical activity consisted of a combination of aerobic and resistance exercises for upper and lower limbs. Each session included: (1) 5-minute warm-up, (2) 30 minutes of aerobic exercise (performed in treadmills and stationary bikes); (3) 20 minutes of resistance exercises with dumbbells for upper limbs and ankle support for lower limbs (exercises preformed in diagonals) that consisted of 6 sets of 10 resistance exercises repeated for upper limbs, and the same number of sets for lower limbs; and (4) 5-minute cool-down, totaling ninety minutes of session per day (90min/day) and, two hundred and seventy minutes per week (270min/week).