PHYSICAL EXERCISE TO ABTAIN PHYSIOLOGIC GAIN IN AN ELDERLY LADY: CASE STUDY

Abstract

The searched one is a 73 years old lady, physically active, that used the daily walk, with no professional orientation, as preferred activity. The research used forms of daily pre-evaluation, evaluation, training and re-evaluation to each three months, during a whole year.  In the daily pre-evaluation, we tried to identify the lady's objectives, limitations and preferences.  The identification allowed the choice of evaluation standards, training and re- evaluation.  The evaluation followed an established physically apt individual criterion, in which the antropometrics variables and the functional capacity had been evaluated.  Some tests followed usually standards, others had been extracted of the roll of tests applied for the CELAFISCS, in third age individuals.  The prescription of the training followed the parameters established through the daily pre-evaluation and evaluation.  The preference of the searched lady were aerobic work and body-building.  The chosen place for the aerobic work was the "Belmar Fidalgo" square, next to her home, and the chosen one for the body-building work was “Academia Raquetes”, whith a small structure for body-building, composed of free weight, cushions and an horizontal weight-lifting bank.  The reevaluations had been executed each three months, showing a significant evolution in the first moth, but just a significative evolution and equal evolution or stabilization in the following trimesters.  The analysis of the information leaded us to a conclusion in which an adequate method of physical activity in a person of third age can result in improvements, perceived through the evolution or in the stabilization of the rates.