What is it about?
Both exercise training and diet are recommended to prevent and control hypertension and overweight/obesity. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of different 16-week aerobic exercise programmes with hypocaloric diet on blood pressure, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness and pharmacological treatment. Participants in four groups: attention control group (physical activity recommendations) or one of three supervised exercise groups (2 days/week: high-volume with 45 minutes of moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT), high-volume and high-intensity interval training (HIIT), alternating high and moderate intensities, and low-volume HIIT (20 minutes)).
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Why is it important?
Low volume high-intensity interval training could be an option to tailor supervised exercise along with daily recommendations of lower intensities physical activities in the studied population.
Perspectives
This paper is the result of a great effort and commitment from the Department of Physical Education and Sport and Faculty of Physical Education and Sport-Physical Activity and Sport Sciences Section (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU) , as well as a lot of support from Physical Activity and Sport doctoral-students, and medical staff. Very little external funding but good job! I think this article underpins the importance of exercise-intensity design and work by exercise specialists and our motto based on FITT principle.
Dr SARA MALDONADO-MARTIN
UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY (UPV/EHU)
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This page is a summary of: Effects of different aerobic exercise programmes with nutritional intervention in sedentary adults with overweight/obesity and hypertension: EXERDIET-HTA study, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2047487317749956.
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