Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Inclusion Criteria: Hemiparetic individuals with a history of stroke and/or high blood pressure (prehypertensive and hypertensive patients) who are controlled and do not practice the Pilates method.
Exclusion Criteria: Diagnosis of cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic or locomotor disease that makes it impossible or contraindicates the practice of the proposed exercises; Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic BP ≥160 mmHg or diastolic pressure and ≥105 mmHg at rest); Spasticity: 3 according to the modified Ashworth Scale; Smoking and frequencies in exercise sessions below 75%.
