Evaluation of isokinetic muscle strength and its variables in women practicing ballet pilates

• Autor(a) principal: Felix , Italo Tavares
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Matos, Maria de Lourdes Santana, Sousa, Davi Santana, Costa, Aida Carla Santana de Melo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/21736
• topic: Fuerza muscular; Movimiento; Mujeres.; Muscle strength; Movement; Women.; Força Muscular; Movimento; Mulher.

Ballet Pilates is an innovative modality that combines Pilates principles with Classic Ballet movements, which improves breathing, increases muscle strength and flexibility. Furthermore, isokinetic assessment detects muscle imbalances. This research is justified by the scarcity of publications about this type of exercise, requiring improved knowledge of the benefits of this practice. The objective was to quantify concentric and eccentric strength gain, muscle power and endurance in Ballet Pilates practitioners, in addition to identifying and quantifying their muscle imbalances. This is a pilot, intervention, quantitative study, comparing intra-individually, with a sample of nine participants, practitioners for three months, initially evaluated and at the end with an isokinetic dynamometer. This is a pilot, intervention, quantitative study, comparing intra-individually, with a sample of nine participants, practitioners for three months, initially evaluated and at the end with an isokinetic dynamometer. When correlating muscle imbalance and concentric strength, there was a significant imbalance, while in the reassessment, there was no statistical significance. It was noticed a gain in concentric strength and an increase in muscular endurance, thus proving that Ballet Pilates promotes muscular balance and the practice works strength and muscular endurance.