Beneficial effects of individualized physical activity on prescription on body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors: results from a randomized controlled trial

Abstract

Individualized PAP improves body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors in sedentary older overweight individuals. PAP might be useful in clinical practice to counteract the epidemic of sedentary lifestyle and concomitant cardiometabolic disorders.

Maximal step-up height as a simple and relevant health indicator: a study of leg muscle strength and the associations to age, anthropometric variables, aerobic fitness and physical function

“…In the light of the fact that physical activity is a complex behaviour we need better diagnostic tools to identify relevant problems in the individual patient. Therefore, we find the information provided by the assessed MSH, measuring leg strength and function and side differences, useful when prescribing physical activity and exercise,31 32 in lifestyle interventions33 as well as for patient's characteristics in future research.…”

Gymnastics as a Remedy: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Swedish Medical Gymnastics

“…We know, too, that the extent of the positive effect depends on the type and amount of physical activity, which Ling also claimed. Even the prescription of physical movement Ling believed physicians should issue and those Branting began to write have made a return in the Western world: patients can now be given physical activity or training as treatment -as a replacement for or a complement to medicine -on prescription (Kallings et al 2009). However, Ling gymnasts did not consider training relevant, which it later became with the 20 th century development of modern occupational physiology (Lundquist Wanneberg 2004).…”

Prescribing Exercise in Clinical Practice

“…Both groups decreased their sitting time, the intervention group by 2 h per day and the control group by 1 h a day. In parallel, waist circumference, body weight, body composition, blood glucose, and blood lipids improved [71]. Keeping in mind the global demographic transition to a larger proportion of older people (> 65 years of age), an increasing prevalence of overweight, and decreasing physical activity levels, physical activity on prescription might be one way for health care professionals to counteract the epidemic of sedentary lifestyles.…”

“…In a Swedish randomized controlled trial including 101 newly retired 67-to 68-year-old individuals with low physical activity, overweight, and abdominal obesity, the effects of physical activity of prescription on sedentary hours, physical activity level, and cardiovascular risk was studied [71]. The intervention group (n=47) received individualized physical activity on prescription during patient-centered counseling.…”