The purpose of this study was to compare the prefrontal cortex (PFC) blood flow variation and time on in males and females while performing a motor task and imagery perspectives. Eighteen right handed subjects (11 males and 7 females) were volunteers to this study. All subjects went through three randomly conditions, a motor task condition (MT) in which they had to do a simple finger tap. The other conditions i...
O objetivo do estudo foi analisar os efeitos da ingestão de cafeína sobre o desempenho físico e estado de humor de ciclistas em teste contrarrelógio de 1 km. Dez ciclistas do sexo masculino realizaram aleatoriamente um teste contrarrelógio de 1 km em duas condições experimentais: ingestão de cafeína (CAF - 6 mg.kg-1) e placebo (PL) 60 min antes do teste. Durante os testes foram obtidas as medidas de tempo total...
<p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> The aim of this study was to investigate the static and dynamic balance after a training session on the vibration platform in elderly women with different loads.<br> <b>METHODs:</b> Participated in this study fifteen subjects (67.0 ± 4.7 years, 69.1 ± 10.5 kg, 155.4 ± 4.5 cm) underwent eight sessions in which the vibrating platform on separate days, in different frequencies and amplitudes (...