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Introduction: Excess body weight adversely affects human health and the body strives to adapt to any increase in weight. Therefore the aim of this study was to determine physical performance and presentation of the cardiovascular and respiratory fitness under the conditions of maximum exercise load in obese and overweight men. Methods: The study involved 12 obese men (OM), 12 overweight men (OWM), and 12 men with normal body mass (NBM). All subjects were of a similar age. After determining the somatic data, the re...

{{Introduction: }} Reducing lipid levels in blood plasma is one of the ways of preventing cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this work is to present the changes found in the plasma lipid concentrations of Indian students who had engaged in the yoga practice known as Dynamic Suryanamaskar (DSN) for a period of 2 weeks. {{Methods: }} 105 randomly selected Indian male students aged 17.15В±1.42 years participated in the study. The subjects were divided into 4 groups, according to the Solomon Four Group Design. Gro...

Introduction: Anaerobic power is an important factor determining physical performance in competitive sports. The aim of this paper is to analyze the anaerobic power of athletes involved in various competitive sports which require different forms of training, and to describe the effect of each groupВ’s specialized training over a period of one year on the anaerobic indicators defined by the 30 second Wingate test. Method: The study involved 15 soccer players (SP), 12 practitioners of martial arts (MA), 15 weightlif...

Introduction: Assessing various physiological parameters at the second ventilatory threshold (ATV2) is one of the ways of determining a person's cardiovascular fitness. The intensity of exercise that accompanies the reaching of ATV2 is sufficient to act as a training stimulus. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a period of one yearВ’s sport specific training produced any metabolic, circulatory, and respiratory changes in athletics runners (AR) and race walkers (RW) when tested at a level of physical ex...