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Circuit training for bone health: efficacy of the bone-based rotation exercises principle

A pilot study

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Abstract

Purpose

Physical exercise has been shown effective for bone health, across lifespan, if proper characteristics have been ensured during exercise prescription and conduction. The aim of our study was to verify if workout organization, in postmenopausal women, may have a central role in determining the entity of the osteogenic effect of a physical exercise program.

Methods

Thirty-two postmenopausal women (mean age 59.35 ± 3.65 years) were eligible for the study. Plasma BAP and CTx-I were collected, and DEXA, anthropometry, dietary habits, and fitness tests have been ascertained before and after their participation in 12-week supervised workouts. One sub-group (TWs-s) was trained according to a traditional workout scheme, while the other sub-group (BBs-s) was trained following a bone-based scheme of exercise rotation.

Results

BBs-s significantly increased BAP plasma values (p = 0.004) and Six-Minute Walking Test result (p < 0.001), while TWs-s not. Both the sub-groups significantly increased Flamingo Balance Test (p = 0.05), Plank Position Test (p < 0.001), Handgrip Test (p = 0.004), Squat Test (p < 0.001), and Arm Curl Test (p < 0.001).

Conclusions

When bone health is considered, the establishment of the right exercise order, in a circuit training workout, is very important, because it could amplify or delay mechanoreceptor desensitizing. The experimented bone-based scheme of exercise rotation seems able to furnish positive effects on bone, muscle, and aerobic fitness.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to JB Berns and Urban Rebounding Italia for their technical support and to Dr. Christopher Berrie for the linguistic revision of the manuscript.

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  1. Endocrine Section, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, c/o University Centre of Sports Medicine, ‘G. d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara, Viale Abruzzo 322, 66013, Chieti Scalo, Italy

    Andrea Di Blasio, Riccardo Leve, Serena Di Santo, Ines Bucci, Cesidio Giuliani, Alessandra De Remigis, Camilla Tinari, Giulia Di Dalmazi & Giorgio Napolitano

  2. Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, ‘G. d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti Scalo, Italy

    Andrea Sablone & Patrizio Ripari

  3. Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, ‘G. d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti Scalo, Italy

    Angelo Di Iorio

  4. Department of Medical Sciences ‘M. Aresu’ University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Lucia Cugusi

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Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki for Human Research of 1964 (last amended in 2000).

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Di Blasio, A., Sablone, A., Leve, R. et al. Circuit training for bone health: efficacy of the bone-based rotation exercises principle. Sport Sci Health 13, 69–77 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-016-0312-y

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