Abstract
Home-based teleworking, associated with sedentary behavior, may impair self-reported adult health status. Current exercise recommendations, based on universal recipes, may be insufficient or even misleading to promote healthy teleworking. From the Network Physiology of Exercise perspective, health is redefined as an adaptive emergent state, product of dynamic interactions among multiple levels (from genetic to social) that cannot be reduced to a few dimensions. Under such a perspective, fitness development is focused on enhancing the individual functional diversity potential, which is better achieved through varied and personalized exercise proposals. This paper discusses some myths related to ideal or unique recommendations, like the ideal exercise or posture, and the contribution of recent computer technologies and applications for prescribing exercise and assessing fitness. Highlighting the need for creating personalized working environments and strengthening the active contribution of users in the process, new recommendations related to teleworking posture, home exercise counselling, exercise monitoring and to the roles of healthcare and exercise professionals are proposed. Instead of exercise prescribers, professionals act as co-designers that help users to learn, co-adapt and adequately contextualize exercise in order to promote their somatic awareness, job satisfaction, productivity, work–life balance, wellbeing and health.
Highlights
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced a huge social and environmental impact on our lives, promoting organizational and behavioral changes with important implications for our lifestyle and our health status
We aim to propose, under the Network Physiology of Exercise approach, some personalized exercise medicine recommendations for keeping a healthy lifestyle under home-based teleworking conditions
Proposing exercise criteria and workout self-regulation based on subjective monitoring and somatic awareness, instead of on prescribed exercise recipes, may allow an adequate contextualization and personalization of physical activity during teleworking, but may increase potential risks associated with exercise
Summary
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced a huge social and environmental impact on our lives, promoting organizational and behavioral changes with important implications for our lifestyle and our health status. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and The World Health Organization (WHO) recommend a physically active lifestyle, suggesting that adults participate in at least 150 to 300 min of moderate-intensity (3–6 METs), or 75 to 150 min of vigorousintensity (>6 METs), or more for additional health benefits, of aerobic physical activity per week, together with strength exercises, to reduce the risk of chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and certain types of cancer [3,4] Such general exercise recommendations are addressed to healthy persons and clinical patients with multiple diseases and a wide age range. Physiology of Exercise, it has been proposed that an adequately personalized exercise may promote the creation of functional synergies and healthy physiological network connectivity, characterized by functionality and flexibility, while a sedentary lifestyle may lead to dysfunctional, poor and weak connectivity [5] In agreement with this new conception of physical fitness, the term exercise is used here in a wide sense.
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