en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">Objective:</span></span></span></b><b> </b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">This study aimed to compare the effect of eight weeks of traditional resistance training and total body resistance exercise (TRX) on the immune system of obese sedentary women.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">Materials and Methods</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">In this quasi-experimental study, 28 obese women with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 30.39&plusmn; 4.65 (kg/m²⁾were randomly divided into three groups of TRX training (N= 9), traditional resistance training (N= 9) and control (N= 10). The experimental groups performed exercise training in three sessions per week for 8 weeks. Blood samples were taken from all subjects 48 hours before and after the last training session and were used for neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, basophil, and eosinophil analysis. Data were statistically analyzed using dependent T-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) by SPSS software, the significance level was </span></span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">P</span></span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">< 0.05.<b><i></i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Results:</span></span></b> <span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">The results of the study did not show significant differences within and between groups in the variables of the immune system (neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils)<b><i> </i></b></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">(<i>P</i>< 0.05). Also, the results of ANOVA showed a significant difference in basophil count only between the three groups (<i>P</i>= 0.006).</span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">Conclusion</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">According to the results of the study, no significant difference in immune system indices was observed between the groups. Therefore, performing traditional resistance exercises and moderate-intensity TRX has no significant effect on the immune system of sedentary obese women.</span></span><b><i><span dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></span></i></b></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp; Traditional resistance, TRX, Immune system, Women, Obese 77 86 http://ijdo.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-30-343&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mohsen Akbarpour Beni 0000-0002-3565-4851 Yes Associate Professor Department of Sports Sciences, University of Qom, Qom, Iran. Raziye Bakhteyari 0000-0003-3072-3130 No Expert Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.