Exercise training and habitual physical activity: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exercise training reduces adiposity and risk of cardiovascular disease. However, the combined effects of habitual free-living physical activity and aerobic training on waist circumference, weight, fitness, and blood pressure in postmenopausal women are unknown.

Purpose

To evaluate the effects of habitual physical activity levels during aerobic training on weight, waist circumference, fitness, and blood pressure.

Design

Secondary analysis of an RCT. Original data collected April 2001 to June 2005 and analyzed in 2012.

Setting/participants

Postmenopausal women in a supervised exercise trial.

Intervention

Women (n=325) were randomized to 4, 8, or 12 kcal/kg per week of aerobic training or a control group for 6 months. All outcome measures were co

SUBMITTER: Swift DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3504348 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature