Limitations, Directions for Further Research and Practical Applications
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The present study is has some limitations, which may have influenced the results obtained. Even within the value stipulated by the sample calculation, the number of participants could have been larger for each group, but the difficulty of finding healthy elderly people available for the research study hindered this purpose. We could have had two groups (one training and one control), because we would have had the appropriate sample according to the calculation, but our goal was to generate comparisons between different training groups (different intensities), plus control, to demonstrate the potential of each intensity level and thus provide possible information for prescription with this population. Therefore, we believe that with a larger sample in each group, statistically we could have more significant results. On the other hand, we were able to show that the findings, in part, were positive through effect size and percentage delta. The sample in this study was classified as overweight by the body mass index (26.8 ± 1.3 kg/mRegarding the applied analysis, studies used equipment with a high level of reliability, such as for hemodynamic and autonomic evaluations performed with electrocardiogram and gas analyzer to verify VOWe suggest further studies with the elderly using IT as an intervention on cardioprotective variables. Chronic studies using different intensities and protocols on hemodynamic, autonomic and cardiorespiratory behavior. We believe that larger stimuli are positive in these mentioned responses. With these possibilities, we will have more information about IT in the elderly population. However, our study has high potential in practical applicability because we applied protocols that are accessible to a large part of the elderly population. Other issues are that we used reliable assessments that were also very accessible and our intensity monitoring (HR) protocol, besides being accessible, was easy to understand and use.