The effects of Rhytmic Gymnastics Training on Blood Nitric Oxide Levels and Muscle Injury Markers
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2014
Yazarlar: FARUK TURGAY, Pınar Tatlıbal, Onur ORAL, Alirıza Şişman
13th International Sports Sciences Congress, Türkiye, Konya, Uluslararası, Poster, Özet Bildiri, 2014-2014, Diğer Endeksler, ss 302-303
Özet
<p>Aim: Nitric oxide (NO) is a gas which has vasodilatory, antioxidant and various metabolic regulatory features. It is known that doing aerobic exercise regularly has healing effects on blood NO levels. However, basically the effects of an anaerobic type of training are unclear especially on children. Thus, POSTER PRESENTATIONS MOVEMENT AND TRAINING SCIENCES 303 the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of rhythmic gymnastics trainings on blood nitric oxide levels and muscle injury markers. Methods: 8-14 aged (10.33 ± 1.79 years) unmenarched, healthy and trained 16 rhythmic gymnastics athletes (RGG) and 13 sedentary (CG) girls (age; 9.23 ± 1 years) participated in this study. The physical measurements were performed for the volunteers. After 12 hours of fasting, venous blood samples were taken at 09:00 - 10:00 am. Fasting blood NO levels were measured. The measurements of alanine amino transferase (ALT), aspartate amino transferase (AST), gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase (CK) as muscle injury indicators and creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) enzyme activities, troponin-I (Tn-I) and myoglobin (MYB) levels as heart muscle injury markers were determined. Results: The body fat ratio values of RGG found significantly low in comparison with CG. There is no significant difference between RGG (107.94±6.41 µM) and CG (107.01±17.73 µM) in terms of NO levels (p =0.102). There is no significant difference between RGG and CG in terms of muscle damage parameters. All the biochemical parameters were found between normal value ranges. Conclusions: The results of this study indicates that rhythmic gymnastics training has no effect on children in terms of NO levels and evaluated muscle damage parameters. However it is thought that more narrowly defined age groups and more participants are needed to determine the effects of rhythmic gymnastics training on children.</p>