Effect of Aerobic and Resisted Exercise on Lipid Profile and Quality of Life in Overweight Breastfeeding Women

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

54

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 1, 2023

Primary Completion Date

July 31, 2023

Study Completion Date

July 31, 2023

Conditions
Postpartum Weight Retention
Interventions
OTHER

Nutritional recommendation and Faradic stimulation program

proper maternal nutrition and fluid intake during breast-feeding per day for 12 weeks and2 sessions per week, each session 20 minutes, for 12 weeks. Frequency of 65 Hz, and width pulse 300 ms, with contraction time 10 sec and relaxation time 10 sec

OTHER

aerobic and resisted exercise for 12 weeks

Each woman in group (B) participated in a moderate exercise program (aerobic+resistive), 3 days/week, for 12 weeks. The session began with 15 minutes of aerobic exercise on a bicycle ergometer, at 60% of heart rate reserve (HRR), with HRR estimated (220-age-resting heart rate). Then, the participant was performed 15 minutes of resistive exercise (two sets of 8-12 repetitions at 75% of one repetition maximum (1-RM) for basic core exercises in the form of hip lifts, knee extension and flexion, crunches, shoulder flexion and extension, elbow flexion and extension with resistance

Trial Locations (1)

055

Marwa Gamal Mohamed Ali Anany, Abū Kabīr

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Cairo University

OTHER