2.1. Intervention
The ST and UT groups underwent a 12-week exercise program, conducted 3 times a week for 30 min. Subjects in the supervised training group had weekly 30 min sessions, comprising 5 min of warm-up (walking at 60% of the maximum heart rate monitored by a Polar (H10) heart rate monitor), followed by 20 sets of 30 s each using a moderate cadence (1 movement every 2 s), controlled by a metronome, with 30 s of passive recovery between sets and 5 min of cool-down, on non-consecutive days. The UT group was instructed to freely visit the space; however, they exercised spontaneously according to the APPIs program recommendation, using only the equipment proposed by the study. The equipment utilized in this study included an elliptical rowing machine, surfboard, and leg press, as per a previous study [