A Single Session Of Pole Dance Reduces Blood Pressure In Women

In the control session, participants remained in a sitting position, without performing any type of physical effort, for a period of 60 minutes. They could talk, read a book, use their cell phone and drink water, but in the minutes before the measurement, they had to remain silent, still in a sitting position, without carrying out such activities.

In the experimental session, participants underwent a PD class lasting 60 minutes. Initially, a warm-up (~15 min) was carried out involving joint mobility movements and muscle stretching, followed by an initial part (~10) marked by muscle strengthening and resistance exercises, execution of turns and low plane transitions. The second part of the class (~15 min) was dedicated to learning and executing movements and aerial transitions using the static pole, while, in the third part of the class (~15 min), sequences of movements on the spinning pole were worked on, finishing with a passive stretch to return to calm (~5 min).

At the end of the class, subjective rate of perceived exertion (RPE) was collected using the modified Borg scale [17] (0-10), with the aim of evaluating the intensity perception of the session.