The aim of this study was to compare heart rate variability -guided (HRVG) and predetermined (PD) block periodization of high intensity aerobic training (HIT). Endurance performance, neuromuscular performance, heart rate variability (HRV) and serum hormone concentrations were measured before, in the middle and after the 8-week training period in 24 endurance trained males. Both groups improved ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 10 weeks of endurance training on nesfatin-1 levels and insulin resistance in women with type-2 diabetes. 16 women with type-2 diabetes were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly divided into experimental (n = 8) and control (n = 8) groups. the experimental group performed endurance training for 10 weeks, 3 sessions a week (wit...

the present study examined the effect of endurance training on lipid profile, body weight and cardiovascular endurance in normal male rats after bunium persicum extract administration. 40 experimental male rats were divided into 5 groups: control, placebo, endurance training (et), bunium persicum extract administer (bpea) and et – bpea group. the exercise protocol was performed at a speed of 25...

BACKGROUND Muscle power (force x velocity) recedes at a faster rate than strength with age and may also be a stronger predictor of fall risk and functional decline. The optimal training paradigm for improving muscle power in older adults is not known, although some literature suggests high velocity, low load training is optimal in young adults. METHODS One hundred twelve healthy older adults ...

The regulation of endurance training is usually based on the prescription of exercise intensity. Exercise duration, another important variable of training load, is rarely prescribed by individual measures and mostly set from experience. As the specific exercise duration for any intensity plays a substantial role regarding the different kind of cellular stressors, degree, and kind of fatigue as ...

During the last three decades, exercise interventions in chronic heart failure patients have seen a remarkable career: Until the late 1980s, standard cardiology textbooks recommended a reduction of physical activity levels as standard of care in heart failure patients. It was a true paradigm shift when Coats et al. (3) compared exercise training and activity restriction in a prospective randomi...

Recently, Kon et al. (2014) published in this journal an interesting paper entitled “Effects of systemic hypoxia on human muscular adaptations to resistance exercise training “ which determined the effect of 8 weeks of resistance training (5 sets of 10 reps at 70% of 1 RM of free weight bench-press and bilateral leg-press using a weight-stack machine) under hypoxia (HRT, 14.4% O2) or normoxia, ...