The effect of the sequence of movements during a resistance exercise session on the response of testosterone and cortisol hormones and the ratio between them in young men untrained.

Subject Areas : Physical Activity and Health

yaser kazemzadeh ¹ , pegah hooshangi ² , hadis Haddad ³

1 - graduate of Kharazmi University
2 - Islamic Azad University, Tehran-shomal Branch
3 - Bachelor's degree، faculty of Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr branch

Received: 2022-08-15 Accepted : 2022-12-23 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Cortisol, sequence of movements, Testosterone, Resistance training,

Abstract :

AbstractThe most important purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of different arrangements of movements in resistance training on the response of cortisol and testosterone hormones to a resistance activity session. 12 healthy young men aged 19 to 25 who had no history of weight training randomly participated in 3 sessions of resistance exercise with the same exercise variables. In the first session, the movements were performed as upper body-lower body, the second session was performed in reverse order, and the third session was performed as one in between. 15 minutes before and immediately after the end of all three sessions of resistance sports activity, blood samples were taken from the subjects, and the levels of cortisol and testosterone hormones were measured and the results were analyzed using variance analysis with repeated measures at α≥0.05 level. The results showed that the change in the arrangement of the movements does not cause a change in the response of cortisol and testosterone to a resistance activity session (respectively, P=0.118 and P=0.343), but the change in the order of the movements when the arrangement of the movements is in the middle of Upper body and lower body movements had the best ratio between cortisol and testosterone (P=0.028). The results of this research showed that changing the order of movements in the form of one upper body movement and one lower body movement can improve the ratio between testosterone and cortisol concentrations at the end of a training session.