Exercise Prescription For Health Research Articles

Physical Activity, Exercise Prescription for Health and Home-Based Rehabilitation

The aim of this overview was to recommend individual training plans using exercise prescriptions for adults and older adults during home-based rehabilitation. Over the last decade, many regular physical activity studies with large prospective cohorts have been conducted. Taken together, more than a million subjects have been included in these exercise studies. The risk of morbidity and mortality has been reduced by 30% to 40% as a result of exercise. These risk reductions hold true for many diseases, as well as for prevention and rehabilitation. Physical activity has also been in the treatment of many diseases, such as cardiopulmonary, metabolic or neurologic/psychiatric diseases, all with positive results. Based on these results, the prescription of exercise was developed and is now known as the exercise prescription for health in many European countries. Details have been published by the European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations (EFSMA). The exercise prescription is strongly recommended for inpatients, discharged patients and outpatients who have recovered from severe diseases. Rehabilitation improves general health, physical fitness, quality of life and may increase longevity of life.

Exercise prescription for health: Italian perspective. Italian guidelines for exercise prescription in healthy adults (18-65 years)

Exercise prescription for health: Italian perspective. Italian guidelines for exercise prescription in healthy adults (18-65 years)

Personalised Prescription of Scalable High Intensity Interval Training to Inactive Female Adults of Different Ages.

Stepping is a convenient form of scalable high-intensity interval training (HIIT) that may lead to health benefits. However, the accurate personalised prescription of stepping is hampered by a lack of evidence on optimal stepping cadences and step heights for various populations. This study examined the acute physiological responses to stepping exercise at various heights and cadences in young (n = 14) and middle-aged (n = 14) females in order to develop an equation that facilitates prescription of stepping at targeted intensities. Participants completed a step test protocol consisting of randomised three-minute bouts at different step cadences (80, 90, 100, 110 steps·min-1) and step heights (17, 25, 30, 34 cm). Aerobic demand and heart rate values were measured throughout. Resting metabolic rate was measured in order to develop female specific metabolic equivalents (METs) for stepping. Results revealed significant differences between age groups for METs and heart rate reserve, and within-group differences for METs, heart rate, and metabolic cost, at different step heights and cadences. At a given step height and cadence, middle-aged females were required to work at an intensity on average 1.9 ± 0.26 METs greater than the younger females. A prescriptive equation was developed to assess energy cost in METs using multilevel regression analysis with factors of step height, step cadence and age. Considering recent evidence supporting accumulated bouts of HIIT exercise for health benefits, this equation, which allows HIIT to be personally prescribed to inactive and sedentary women, has potential impact as a public health exercise prescription tool.

The history of "Exercise Is Medicine" in ancient civilizations.

In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine, with endorsement from the American Medical Association and the Office of the Surgeon General, launched a global initiative to mobilize physicians, healthcare professionals and providers, and educators to promote exercise in their practice or activities to prevent, reduce, manage, or treat diseases that impact health and the quality of life in humans. Emerging from this initiative, termed Exercise Is Medicine, has been an extensively documented position stand by the American College of Sports Medicine that recommended healthy adults perform 150 min of moderate dynamic exercise per week. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the foundation for this global initiative and its exercise prescription for health and disease prevention has roots that began in antiquity more than two millennia ago. Individuals and concepts to remember are that Susruta of India was the first “recorded” physician to prescribe moderate daily exercise, Hippocrates of Greece was the first “recorded” physician to provide a written exercise prescription for a patient suffering from consumption, and the global influence of Galen from Rome combined with his recommendation on the use of exercise for patients in the management of disease prevailed until the 16th century. Historically intertwined with these concepts was exercise being advocated by select physicians to minimize the health problems associated with obesity, diabetes, and inactivity.

Benefits of Regular Exercise and Exercise Prescription for Health

Benefits of Regular Exercise and Exercise Prescription for Health

Heart rate monitoring and exercise: Challenges for the future

In little over a decade, lightweight radiotelemetric equipment has been designed and developed which measures heart rate accurately under free-living conditions. The rate of refinement of the heart rate monitor technology has far exceeded the rate at which the understanding of heart rate during exercise has improved. This brief paper lists the problems and questions that need to be addressed to improve our understanding and application of heart rate measured during exercise to optimize exercise prescription for health and sports performance.

Exercise Prescription for Health

Many exercise scientists describe physical activity programs as either exercise for health or exercise for fitness. Data on the dose-response gradient for the relation of physical activity or physical fitness to health and function are reviewed herein to examine this hypothesis. This conceptualization is refuted in this paper. Moderate amounts and moderate intensities of activity or fitness are associated with improved clinical status, higher levels of physical fitness, and lower risk of mortality. This leads to the conclusion that the single most important component of a physical activity regimen is total energy expenditure, whether the desired outcome is health or physical activity. If this view is correct and total energy expenditure should be the primary focus, additional flexibility in physical activity recommendations is possible. Both traditional formal exercise programs and lifestyle physical activity can make important contributions to health and function.