Effects of Stair Climbing on Blood Pressure, Lipid Profiles, and Physical Fitness

Jung-Wha Moon; Yeong-Sook Yoon; Hong-Jae Lee; Tae-Ho Jeong; Young-Hye Hwang; Ha-Seong Kim

doi:10.5763/kjsm.2019.37.1.17

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Moon, Yoon, Lee, Jeong, Hwang, and Kim: Effects of Stair Climbing on Blood Pressure, Lipid Profiles, and Physical Fitness

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Sports Science

The Korean Journal of Sports Medicine 2019; 37(1): 17-28.

Published online: 8 March 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5763/kjsm.2019.37.1.17

Effects of Stair Climbing on Blood Pressure, Lipid Profiles, and Physical Fitness

Jung-Wha Moon¹, Yeong-Sook Yoon², Hong-Jae Lee³, Tae-Ho Jeong¹, Young-Hye Hwang⁴, Ha-Seong Kim³

¹Sports Medical Center, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.

²Department of Family Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.

³Department of Medicine and Rehabilitation, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.

⁴CS Team, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.

Correspondence: Jung-Wha Moon. Sports Medical Center, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, 170 Juhwa-ro, Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang 10380, Korea. Tel: +82-31-910-7190, Fax: +82-31-910-7889, jhmoon@paik.ac.kr

Received 15 October 2018 Revised 23 February 2019 Accepted 25 February 2019

The Korean Society of Sports Medicine

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of the study is to identify the effects of worker's stair-climbing on blood pressure, lipid profiles, and physical fitness.

Methods

After recruiting 114 healthy adult women aged 20 to 64 years who have had sedentary for more than 3 months, we divided into two groups: the stair group (SG, n=57) and control group (CG, n=57). SG was supposed to do stair-climbing in daily life like workplace and home for 12 weeks. To investigate the effects of the lifestyle changing of stair-climbing, resting blood pressure, heart rate (HR), and lipid profiles were measured before and after 12-week stair-climbing. Also, physical fitness items such as peak oxygen consumption (VO₂peak), back muscle strength, sit and reach, isokinetic strength of knee joint, static and dynamic balance were measured.

Results

As a result of the 12-week lifestyle changing of stair-climbing, resting systolic blood pressure (SBP; p<0.05) and HR (p<0.01) were significantly decreased in SG. Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) was significantly reduced in SG (p<0.05). There was a significant improvement in the VO₂peak (p<0.001). There were a significant improvement in back strength (p<0.001) and bilateral knee extensor (60°/sec: p<0.05, p<0.01, 180°/sec: p<0.01, p<0.01) and knee flexor (180°/sec: p<0.01, p<0.05) of isokinetic strength. There were significant improvements in static balance of one leg standing eye-closed (p<0.05) and dynamic balance of left/right velocity (p<0.01), forward/backward velocity (p<0.01).

Conclusion

In this study, 12 weeks of lifestyle changing of stair-climbing improved SBP, resting HR, LDL-C, VO₂peak, back and knee strength, static and dynamic balance as well as increased physical activity volume of stair-climbing in the daily living.

Keywords: Blood pressure, Lipids, Peak oxygen consumption (VO₂peak), Stair-climbing, Strength

Figures and Tables

Fig. 1

Stair climbing daily record.

Fig. 2

Physical activity. (A) Stair group. (B) Control group.

Table 1

Physical characteristic of subjects

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

Table 2

Resting heart rate and blood pressure

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

Significantly different from value of pre-test: ^*p<0.05, ^***p<0.001.

Table 3

Obesity degree

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

Significantly different from value of pre-test: ^*p<0.05, ^***p<0.001.

Table 4

Lipid profiles

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation. Pre- and post-test participants: glucose (SG, n=55; CG, n=52), total cholesterol (SG, n=56; CG, n=52), HDL-C and LDL-C (SG, n=55; CG, n=51), triglyceride (SG, n=55; CG, n=51).

HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, SG: stair group, CG: control group.

Significantly different from value of pre-test: ^*p<0.05.

Table 5

Physical fitness

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

VO₂peak: peak oxygen consumption.

Significantly different from value of pre-test: ^***p<0.001.

Table 6

Isokinetic muscular function of knee

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

Significantly different from value of pre-test: ^*p<0.05, ^***p<0.001.

Table 7

Static balance and dynamic balance

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

SB: static balance, DB: dynamic balance, Lt: left, Rt: right, F: forward, B: backward.

Significantly different from value of pre-test: ^*p<0.05, ^**p<0.01.

Table 8

Physical activity volume and stair climbing rate

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

MET: metabolic equivalent.

Significantly different from value of pre-test: ^*p<0.05, ^**p<0.01, ^***p<0.001.

Notes

^{Conflict of Interest} No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

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