Effect of Different Breathing Patterns on Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Response to Resisted Exercises in Females Within the Age Group of 25 to 35 Years

Abstract

Introduction: Blood pressure and heart rate increases in individuals while performing  heavy resisted exercises but acquiring different breathing patterns during exercise shows its  effect on blood pressure and heart rate, it may or may not exaggerate. Inhalation or exhalation  when coupled with concentric phase of resisted exercise may or may not show similar blood  pressure response as compare to inhalation or exhalation when coupled with eccentric phase of  resisted exercise whereas Valsalva maneuver can exaggerate the blood pressure response. 

Objective: To study the inhalation, exhalation and Valsalva maneuver on systolic,  diastolic blood pressure and heart rate. 

Research Design: Quasi experimental. 

Methodology: 30 female subjects were taken which were asked to do a set of bicep curls with 3 different patterns of breathing with each pattern performed on a separate day. Then the recordings were taken and calculated to see in which pattern of breathing blood pressure and heart rate rises. 

Result: ANOVA was used and the result showed that diastolic blood pressure increases  while exhalation coupled with the concentric phase and inhalation coupled with the eccentric  Phase but there is a marked increase in diastolic blood pressure during Valsalva maneuver as  compared to the inhalation coupled with the concentric phase and exhalation coupled with the  eccentric phase. The result showed that the change in the blood pressure due to the different  breathing patterns were significant p>0.05 

Conclusion: It is concluded that Valsalva maneuver exaggerates the blood pressure response. 

Keywords: resisted exercises, Valsalva maneuver, exhalation. breathing patterns.