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Exercise helps increase your lung capacity. Video of the Day. Tip Your lung capacity may increase with aerobic exercise that makes you breathe harder. Benefits of Lung Capacity. Lung Capacity Exercises. Warning Exercise, especially aerobic exercise, will increase your breathing rate and may leave you feeling out of breath. Lay on your back or sit in a chair with your hands placed on your belly. Take a deep breath in through your nose and let your belly expand from the air. Exhale through pursed lips.
Practice for five to 10 minutes. Twenty-two elderly women who met the criteria of this study were selected as final study subjects. The mean age of the subjects was To determine the exercise intensity, the submaximal exercise test was performed using Treadmill Series , Marquette Electronics, USA. The Bruce protocol for high-risk group was applied in consideration of the physical ability of the subjects 8.
This test has the advantage of providing a safe examination in which the elderly can comfortably respire and move while being examined. Pulmonary function tests were taken while the subjects were in a straight sitting posture on a chair. The measurements were performed 3 times and the mean value was used for the analysis. The general characteristics of the subjects were assessed using descriptive statistics and the mean and standard deviation.
Before and after exercise, paired t-test was performed to evaluate pulmonary function changes. The effects of high intensity aerobic exercise for maximum-expiratory lung capacity are shown in Table 1. FVC was 2. FEV 1 was 1. In general, pulmonary function declines with age Treadmill aerobic exercise has been recommended as a way to maintain or improve pulmonary function Exercise on the treadmill is an aerobic exercise that requires a large amount of oxygen uptake because of the long-term use of muscles Nevertheless, there is a lack of research into the effects of aerobic exercise on pulmonary function.
Therefore, this study researched the effect of high intensity aerobic exercise on treadmill on the maximum-expiratory lung capacity of elderly women. In the results, FVC significantly improved after high intensity aerobic exercise. In other words, vital capacity increased after high intensity aerobic exercise. Lee et al. Ericson et al. It suggests that high intensity aerobic exercise increased the oxygen uptake and activated inactive alveoli, and repeated stimulation of inspiration and expiration increased alveolar compliance.
As a result, FVC increased. As more inactive alveoli were activated, more air could enter the alveoli, and increased alveolar compliance could be attributed to increased lung elasticity and more air expiration. FEV 1 is a typical index of resistance to air flow in the respiratory tract In this study, FEV 1 increased significantly after high intensity aerobic exercise. This means that high intensity aerobic exercise improves air flow in the respiratory tract.
Kang 17 reported that when a large lung volume is provided, the lung is greatly expanded and has a large contractile force, and the diameter of the respiratory tract is widened to reduce air flow resistance. Therefore, in this study, we can conclude that FEV 1 is improved because the lung is expanded through high intensity aerobic exercise and a larger volume of air is introduced into the airways and the respiratory tract is widened as a result.
This result suggests that the exercise used in this study was not a muscle strengthening exercise or a rib cage expansion exercise, but a direct stimulating exercise for alveoli with high intensity aerobic exercise. MEF is known to be an indicator of the elasticity and the degree of bronchiole resistance of the alveolar These results suggest that a large amount of air was discharged in the early stage of the expiration period and the amount of air remaining in the bronchiole decreased with time.
As a result, high intensity aerobic exercise may stimulate alveoli and improve lung elasticity. Other recent studies have investigated the effect of exercise on pulmonary function. For example, dancing, 7 playing gate ball, 8 and exercising core muscles, 9 were reported to have had a positive effect on pulmonary function in the elderly. The results of such studies have led to increasing interest in exercise programs that can improve pulmonary function and prevent respiratory disease.
A spirometer is an important in the assessment of the lung functions. Subjects aged 18—50 years were recruited. Informed consent was taken from each after they had been given a detailed explanation of the experiment. The subjects were asked to complete questionnaires on medical history to ensure they are in a good health no acute illnesses related to respiratory or heart disease.
They are often used to measure the efficacy of an intervention and can be considered comparative cross-sectional. For this study, 72 male subjects were randomly selected by simple random sampling technique SRS. Measurements of respiratory indices were taken three times in the pre- and post-exercise phases of each session, and their mean values were used for analysis.
Subjects were asked not to change their habitual physical activity during the study and not to take any nutritional supplements.
Each session began with a warmup period of five minutes. For the session itself, running time started at five minutes, and this interval was increased by ten minutes every three sessions, up to a maximum of 25 minutes.
Subjects had to remain in the straight sitting or standing position throughout the test, and a nose clip was tightly attached to the nostrils, allowing no air to escape during the test. FVC Maneuver: Each subject was asked to inhale completely and rapidly, pausing less than one second at total lung capacity TLC , and then exhale as quickly and completely as possible, expelling all the air. MVV maneuver: Subjects were tested in the sitting position while wearing a nose clip.
They were instructed to breathe as rapidly and deeply as possible for 12 seconds after obtaining at least three resting tidal breaths with an airtight seal around the mouthpiece.
Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS software version The Wilcoxon test, a nonparametric analysis paired t-test , was done to determine changes pre- to post-test. Table 1 shows the mean of the anthropometric characteristics of the 72 subjects. The mean age was Table 2 shows the baseline spirometry data of predicted values for the 72 subjects. The mean predicted FVC was 4. The mean pre-exercise FVC was 3. Post-exercise mean FVC after 5, 15, and 25 minutes was 3. The post-exercise mean FEV 1 after 5, 15, and 25 minutes was 3.
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