BACKGROUND In patients with intermittent claudication, a supervised walking exercise program increases peak exercise performance and community-based functional status. Patients with peripheral arterial disease also have muscle weakness in the affected extremity that may contribute to the walking impairment. However, the potential benefits of training modalities other than walking exercise, such...

Introduction: Obese individuals have elevated levels of inflammatory and cell adhesion molecules that can critically induce the occurrence of atherosclerosis. Aerobic exercise training reduces biochemical markers and anthropometric characteristics involved in atherosclerosis. However, little is known about the effect of resistance exercise training on these biomarkers. This study aimed to inves...

To the Editor: We thank Kurtoglu and colleagues for their interest in our article, “Aerobic Exercise Training Decreases Plasma Asymmetric Dimethylarginine Concentrations with Increase in Arterial Compliance in Postmenopausal Women.”1 We demonstrated that 12 weeks of aerobic exercise training decreased plasma asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) concentrations in postmenopausal women. In their Let...

Emerging research indicates that exercise combined with cognitive training may improve cognitive function in older adults. Typically these programs have incorporated sequential training, where exercise and cognitive training are undertaken separately. However, simultaneous or dual-task training, where cognitive and/or motor training are performed simultaneously with exercise, may offer greater ...

Central arterial blood pressure (BP) is more predictive of future cardiovascular events than is brachial BP because it reflects the BP load imposed on the left ventricle with greater accuracy. However, little is known about the effects of exercise training on central hemodynamic response to acute exercise. The purpose of the present study was to determine the influence of an aerobic exercise re...

BACKGROUND Previous trials have evaluated the effects of aerobic training alone and of resistance training alone on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes, as assessed by hemoglobin A1c values. However, none could assess incremental effects of combined aerobic and resistance training compared with either type of exercise alone. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of aerobic training alone, resist...

PURPOSE To determine the efficacy of exercise training and its effects on outcomes in patients with heart failure. METHODS MEDLINE, Medscape, and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry were searched for trials of exercise training in heart failure patients. Data relating to training protocol, exercise capacity, and outcome measures were extracted and reviewed. RESULTS A total of 81 studies...

EXERCISE TRAINING allows one to perform the same absolute exercise bout with less of a challenge to homeostasis. The metabolic adaptations include increases in the activity of tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes such as citrate synthase and the -oxidation enzyme -hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase ( -HAD) as well as increases in glycogen content within the exercise-trained muscles. The same absol...