| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 運動健康科學系碩士班 === 104 === Background :Aging is a worldwide problem.Regular exercise can bring positive effect for elderly people. Walking on stairs is a good way to exercise. Thus, this study was conducted to investigate the effects of a 6-week stair-descending or ascending exercise on functional physical fitness, health index in elderly people.Method : 31 healthy elderly people (aged 65.48 ± 6.62 years) participated in the study and were allocated randomly to the stair-descending group (n =17 /group) or stair-ascending group (n =14 /group). The participants performed the stair-descending or ascending exercise twice per week for six consecutive weeks. The exercise began with 10 floors and gradually incremented 10 floors every week until the sixth week. Blood sample, oral glucose tolerance test, body composition and functional physical fitness was examined before and 4 days after the exercise interventions.Results : No significant difference was observed between the baseline and postintervention in the body mass index, body fat percentage, fasting insulin, triacylglycerols, total cholesterols, High-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, whole blood glycosylated hemoglobin, apolipoprotein A1 and B, oral glucose tolerance test, 30-second chair-stand test, chair sit-and-reach test, 8-foot up-and-go test, 6-m tandem walk, one-leg stance test with eyes closed, 2-minute step test in either group (p > .05). A significant difference (p < .05) was observed between the baseline and postexercise in the one-leg stance test with eyes open of the stair-ascending and descending groups,but without any significant difference between the two groups (p > .05). Conclusion :This study shows that both stair-ascending and descending exercise interventions improved the static balance in elderly people.
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