Working out at home as effective as gyming: Study
If you are not finding time to hit the gym, do not
worry. Researchers have found that working out at home not only saves your
time, cost and access but also increases adherence. The study, published in The
Journal of Physiology, investigated a home-based high-intensity interval
training (Home-HIT) programme and studied its benefits for clinically obese
individuals with an elevated risk of heart disease.
The research team were interested in whether Home-HIT
is a time-efficient strategy that helps to reduce other common exercise
barriers such as difficulty with access to exercise facilities due to travel time and
cost. “An exercise regimen such as Home-HIT that reduces barriers to exercise
such as time, cost, and access, and increases adherence in previously inactive
individuals gives people a more attainable exercise goal and thus could help
improve the health of countless individuals,” said study author Sam Scott from
Liverpool John Moores University.
For the study, 32 obese people completed a 12-week
exercise programme. A range of health markers were measured in these
participants, including body composition, cardiovascular disease risk and
the ability to regulate glucose. They were categorised in three groups — those
who did supervised, lab-based cycling HIT programme; those who did UK
government-recommended 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise; and those
who did home-based HIT programme of simple body weight exercises suitable for
people with low fitness and low mobility and performed without
equipment.
The researchers found that home-based HIT was as
effective as both the government-recommended 150-minute exercise and the
supervised, lab-based HIT programme for improving fitness in obese individuals.
24.06.2019
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