EFEITO DO TREINAMENTO DE CAMINHADA COMBINADA COM OCLUSÃO VASCULAR SOBRE VARIÁVEIS CARDIORRESPIRATÓRIAS, FORÇA E HIPETROFIA MUSCULAR

Abstract

The walking training with blood flow occlusion has been presented as a good strategy to increase the muscular strength, prevent the sarcopenia and improve the cardiorespiratory fitness. However, the effect of walking training with blood flow occlusion on oxygen uptake (VO2) kinetics is not well understood. Thus, the aim this study was to verify the effect of walking training with blood flow occlusion in body composition, muscular strength, maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) and VO2 kinetics. Twenty six male subjects (51.91 ± 3.50 years; 80.37 ± 10.93 kg; 1.68 ± 0.06 m) took part of this study, and they were randomly divided in two groups: walking training with blood flow occlusion group (GTCOV, n = 14) and walking training without blood flow occlusion group (GTSOV, n = 12). All subjects underwent body composition evaluation, an incremental test, three constant load tests, one repetition maximum tests on horizontal leg press. The intervention consisted in an interval training (5 sets with 3 minutes of walking and 1 minute of rest between the sets, totalizing 19 minutes) during 6 weeks (3 times/week, totalizing 18 sessions of training). The GTCOV received the occlusive stimulus before of training sessions though of a standard sphygmomanometer and performed the training sessions with the vascular occlusion (80-100 mmHg) in both the legs. The results showed that the variables did not present significant difference between the groups after training (p > 0.05). There was a significant increase in thigh cross-sectional area (ASTC) and thigh circumference only in GTCOV (p < 0.01). Moreover, 1RM and VO2max improved only in GTCOV after the training (1RM: before 127.71 ± 19.31 kg; after 137.64 ± 23.65 kg; VO2max: before 27.37 ± 2.91 mL/kg/min, after 30.43 ± 2.77 mL/kg/min; p < 0.05), but was not found significant difference in VO2max when compared to the GTSOV in the before and after moments (p > 0.05). In relation the variables of VO2 kinetics, the amplitude decrease in both the groups after the training (p < 0.01) and time constant decreased only in GTCOV after the training (before 29.97 ± 5.76 s vs after 25.78 ± 4.80 s; p < 0.01). It was concluded that walking training with blood flow occlusion showed improve the cardiorespiratory fitness, and increased the strength and hypertrophy muscle in middle-aged men.