Unsupervised Physical Activity in Elderly

Both control and intervention group undergo clinical evaluation, and anthropometric measurements, blood pressure (casual and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring), physical and laboratorial tests, and the assesment of Quality of Life by Questionnaire SF-36 were done at the beginning and the end of the study.After a period of 12 weeks of unsupervised walking program in which participants were asked to do it three times a week at least, at a moderate intensity (40 to \< 60% of heart rate reserve), all participants underwent a complete re-evaluation to compare the results obtained with the proposed program. Data were analyzed using SPPS, v.23.0.

Both control and intervention group undergo clinical evaluation, and anthropometric measurements, blood pressure (casual and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring), physical and laboratorial tests, and the assesment of Quality of Life by Questionnaire SF-36 were done at the beginning and the end of the study.After a period of 12 weeks of unsupervised walking program in which participants were asked to do it three times a week at least, at a moderate intensity (40 to \< 60% of heart rate reserve), all participants underwent a complete re-evaluation to compare the results obtained with the proposed program. Data were analyzed using SPPS, v.23.0.