Cardiorespiratory assessment of police women in relation to short term training program

ABSTRACT

The impaction of short term training program on the cardiorespiratory functions of police women was investigated. Sixty female subjects were selected randomly from the police Sport Union in Abbassia at Cairo Governorate. The study sample consisted of two groups. the experimental group [police women] and the control group [official employees]. The assessment was done before and after four weeks including anthropometric measures, pulse rate, blood pressure, fitness score test and pulmonary ventilatory functions. The experimental group received short term training program on aerobicycle for four weeks with recreational training by the trainer of the team. The study showed that short term training has an effect on improving the cardiorespiratory functions, There was an increase in average calories expenditure, maximum work load and fitness score. There was a significant lowering in pulse and pulse recovery time. Also, there was an improvement in the pulmonary ventilatory functions due to application of such term training program