The calorific cost of young women’s leisure activity
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2010, Vol 20, Issue 49
Abstract
[b]Aim of the research.[/b] The aim of the researches is an attempt to compare a weekly calorific cost of leisure activity of women regularly and irregularly physically active in the everyday and habitual activity.[b]Material and method.[/b] The research covered 34 women aging 18–35 and residing on the territory of the Opole province. For the research two groups of women were selected. The first one was made up of women who did not undertake a regular physical activity and the other one was made up of women exercising regularly. In this research a method of an indirect observation was applied and a weekly calorific cost of the two groups of women was measured with an accelerometer – Caltrac Monitor. The results of the monitoring of the weekly energetic expense done by women were expressed in kilocalories (kcal) per week and kilocalories per day.[b]Results.[/b] The total calorific cost of everyday (habitual) activity done by women in their ordinary week was various in the compared groups. The women exercising regularly achieved almost twice higher calorific cost than the other research group, which was a result of their different lifestyles. In both groups of the women the calories spent on physical activity constituted approximately 70% of their total caloric cost of habitual activities and it exceeds the energetic cost accompanying passive forms of leisure activities.[b]Conclusions. [/b]It should be noticed that the caloric expense of a physical leisure activity done in a free time per week by the researched women was too low to meet the health recommendations taken by Paffenbarger (about 2000 kcal per week and 300 kcal per day pro physical activity). Definitely, those who were close to meet the above recommendations were the women regularly physically active.
Authors and Affiliations
Bożena Królikowska, Michał Rozpara, Władysław Mynarski, Bogusława Graczykowska, Daniel Puciato
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