Implementation of interval walking training in patients with type 2 diabetes in Denmark: rationale, design, and baseline characteristics.

ABSTRACT: Promoting physical activity is a first-line choice of treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, there is a need for more effective tools and technologies to facilitate structured lifestyle interventions and to ensure a better compliance, sustainability, and health benefits of exercise training in patients with T2D. The InterWalk initiative and its innovative application (app) for smartphones described in this study were developed by the Danish Centre for Strategic Research in T2D aiming at implementing, testing, and validating interval walking in patients with T2D in Denmark. The interval walking training approach consists of repetitive 3-minute cycles of slow and fast walking with simultaneous intensity guiding, based on the exercise capacity of the user. The individual

SUBMITTER: Ried-Larsen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908935 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature