A Comparative Study on Effect of Isotonic Exercise on Sperm Count

Abstract

Background: Physical exercise is an extremely stressful event that the body encounters during
everyday life. During acute bout of exercise, the body must make rapid and integrated cellular
and organ system adjustment to meet body’s metabolic, thermal and fluid demands. So this
study was undertaken to study the effect of isotonic exercise on sperm count in healthy males.
Aim and Objectives: To study the effect of isotonic exercise on sperm count in healthy males.
Materials and Methods: An analytical study was done on 90 males for a duration of 1 year.
Semen examination of the sedentary healthy individuals and those healthy individuals who
were involved in regular isotonic exercises (weight lifting exercises for upper limbs, lower
limbs and torso) for 1 year and 5 years respectively was done in accordance with the
standardized method of the World Health Organization.