The Effect of Acute active and Passive Cool-Down After Exercise on Changes in Blood Pressure and Heart Rate of Teenage Boy Basketball Players

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Faculty of Sport Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

2 Physical Education Teacher, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Background and Objective: Active cool-down is generally believed to be more focused than passive cool-down ‎without activity for promoting post-exercise recovery. However, research has never been done to see ‎if this belief is true. This study compared the acute effect of active and passive cool-down after ‎exercise on blood pressure and heart rate of teenage boy basketball players.‎

Methods: The current research was on the number of 20 teenage basketball players between the ‎ages of 12 and 14 from Mehr Arak Basketball Academy, who were voluntarily and then randomly ‎divided into two groups of 10 people. Basic data including height, weight, body mass index, heart rate ‎and blood pressure were measured in the pre-test and post-test stages. The first group of subjects ‎was evaluated with an active (static) cool-down method and the second group with a passive cool-‎down including sitting, lying or standing (without walking) 1 hour after exercise. To analyze the data, ‎the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the t-test of two independent samples were used to check the ‎significance of the difference between the groups.‎

Finding: The results showed the possibility that cool-down has no effect on the blood pressure and ‎heart rate of teenage boy basketball players.‎

Conclusion: Based on the available empirical evidence, active cool-down is largely ineffective for ‎further improvement in blood pressure and heart rate after exercise, but may nevertheless provide ‎benefits compared with passive cool-down.‎

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Research in Sport Sciences Education (RISSE)
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2023
July 2023
Pages 49-54

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