We sought to determine whether acute resistance exercise (RE)-induced gene expression is modified by RE training. We studied the expression patterns of a select group of genes following an acute bout of RE in naïve and hypertrophying muscle. Thirteen untrained subjects underwent supervised RE training for 12 wk of the nondominant arm and performed an acute bout of RE 1 wk after the last bout of...

Home-based exercise training, applied as the primary treatment in patients with intermittent claudication, has produced inconsistent effects on walking capacity in previous published studies. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether a home-based exercise training program could maintain improved walking capacity and other functional variables achieved through a supervised exercise tr...

Although attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings is associated with improvements in alcohol consumption and related problems, barriers to engagement persist, including negative perceptions by addiction professionals. The current project examined clinician (N = 64) attitudes to AA and other mutual aid (MA) groups before andafter training. Following training, therewere increases in knowledge...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To discriminate the effects of body fat reduction on improvements in peak aerobic capacity made following exercise training during cardiac rehabilitation. DESIGN Observational, prospective study. SETTING Outpatient cardiovascular health center at regional academic center. PATIENT INTERVENTIONS: Peak oxygen uptake (pkVO2), percent body fat, lean body mass (LBM), and other ant...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of age and moderate-intensity exercise training on heart rate variability (HRV), and to elucidate further the mechanism of training-induced bradycardia and cardioprotection. Electrocardiograms were recorded from 12 young (18-24 yrs) and 12 mature (29-43 yrs) individuals during supine rest and submaximal moderate exercise. Recordings were ob...

Objective: To examine the effect of visuomotor priming of a manual reaching movement during a perceptual decision task after stroke. Method: Forty (n=40) post stroke subjects were recruited and divided into two groups. Following pre test, both the groups trained in reaching proximal and distal object with visuomotor priming (experimental group) or without visuomotor priming (control group).Each...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Electrical stimulation has been used to assess skeletal muscle resistance to fatigue. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that 12 weeks of intense endurance exercise training on a bicycle ergometer would reduce the percentage of decline in quadriceps femoris muscle torque during an electrically elicited fatigue test. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eleven nondisab...