Senior Lecture
Email: ybarranco@ugr.es
Yaira Barranco-Ruiz is a member of the PROFITH research group since 2018. She studied Physical Activity and Sports Sciences at the University of Granada (2002-2007), subsequently completing the Doctoral Program in Physical Activity and Health at the University of Granada. In addition, her academic section is completed with 2 official university master’s degrees and 4 postgraduate university in the topic of training and health. She completed 2 years of postdoctoral experience in Ecuador. Since 2016 she has been a professor at the Department of Physical and Sports Education at the University of Granada, where she currently works as a Senior Lecture.
– Active commuting as a strategy for improving health.
– Intervention programs to promote physical activity in the educational context.
– New trends in fitness to improve performance and physical and mental health.
– Oxidative stress and aging in sports and health
Contribution: In this study we demonstrate how the application of a physical exercise intervention based on the trending physical conditioning program Zumba Fitness® and educational sessions on nutritional recommendations seems to be effective for reducing adiposity and increasing muscle mass in subjects. sedentary both with normal weight and with excess weight. Furthermore, it seems that previous dairy intake, particularly cheese intake, could be related to less loss of adiposity at the end of the intervention.
Contribution: Article that compiles information on the effect of interventions based on improving the muscular strength of young people in an educational context. This contribution has been disseminated in different media such as: ABC: https://acortar.link/rMuIBt; Brand: https://acortar.link/8vvsv0; Munideporte.com: https://acortar.link/Hepc1E; COLEF Andalucía (https://acortar.link/uySsFj); UGR Channel (https://acortar.link/yTG9F9).
Contribution: This contribution covers important gaps in the topic of active commuting to school as a daily source of physical activity (PA) in young Spaniards. For example, it is the first systematic review and meta-analysis that analyses objectively quantified PA by separating home-to-school and school-to-home trips, suggesting that they should be evaluated separately since their contribution to PA is different. Furthermore, the meta-analysis carried out leads to one of the most important conclusions of this article, which shows that physically active trips to/from school can contribute to almost 50% of the daily PA recommendations for health in young people.
Contribution: This article shows the specific benefits of health-related fitness in a sedentary and physically inactive workers population after a group exercise intervention with musical support based on a trending physical conditioning program. The results of this article reveal the importance of implementing attractive group physical exercise interventions in work communities that generate adherence to physical exercise, as well as a positive impact on variables that improve health. Furthermore, this contribution has been used informatively in digital news (https:/ /inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/ten-ways-get-fit-40s-without-trying-hard-2859478). It also has been used by the Harvard School of Public Health (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/zumba/). It should be noted that the project to which this publication belongs has had a great impact on newspapers around the world, highlighting the Daily Mail (https://bit.ly/2DXgQKw).
Contribution: In this study, the oxidative response to submaximal intensity exercise was compared between sedentary subjects, recreational and competitive athletes of endurance modalities with different weekly training volumes throughout life. The results revealed that regular exercise and aging alter blood markers of oxidative stress and muscle damage at rest, and in response to submaximal exercise. However, a high volume of lifelong competitive endurance training appears to be associated with lower levels of plasma lipid peroxidation. These low levels, according to our results, could not be explained solely by changes in the antioxidant blood system, but there could be other cellular mechanisms in which an adaptation occurs related to a high volume of weekly endurance sports practice throughout the life.
