Health Care : Current Reviews

Exercise and health: How to obtain the best results?

Euro Health Care and Fitness Summit

September 01-03, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Mourot Laurent

University of Franche-Comté, France

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

The benefits of physical activity for health are recognized and the political powers encourage its practice. The outlines of the �??exercise prescription�?� are known. The minimum duration of a session is 30 minutes. The recommended frequency is daily, or at least 5 days a week. The intensity may be low, but a minimum level is required to achieve an impact on morbidity and mortality: Close to 50% of maximum capacity measured by an incremental exercise test to exhaustion. The possible types of exercises are varied, but for practical and security reasons, the most common activities are walking and bicycling. If these guidelines are established, it is necessary today to propose new training arrangements for the sake of individualization of practices and optimization of the desired effects. This optimization could be understood in terms of positive physical effects for the person (correction of deficiency for example) but also in terms of risk / benefit, economic or temporal terms or to have the best compliance to the training program. Various possibilities exist to improve these generic recommendations. Promising avenues involve changing the practice of exercise modalities, i.e. the use of interval training instead of constant exercises; eccentric muscle contraction regime instead of concentric; use of cold or immersion during or after the exercise to improve the tolerance of the patient. Little information is currently available regarding the effects of these various possible forms: it is time to better define exercise procedures for the optimization of the expected effects.

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Email: laurent.mourot@univ-fcomte.fr