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Exercise patterns in older adults instructed to follow moderate- or high-intensity exercise protocol – the generation 100 study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, September 2018
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Title
Exercise patterns in older adults instructed to follow moderate- or high-intensity exercise protocol – the generation 100 study
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, September 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12877-018-0900-6
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Line Skarsem Reitlo, Silvana Bucher Sandbakk, Hallgeir Viken, Nils Petter Aspvik, Jan Erik Ingebrigtsen, Xiangchun Tan, Ulrik Wisløff, Dorthe Stensvold

Abstract

Making older adults exercise and keeping them in exercise programs is a major challenge. Understanding how older adults prefer to exercise may help developing tailored exercise programs and increase sustained exercise participation in ageing populations. We aimed to describe exercise patterns, including frequency, intensity, type, location and social setting of exercise, in older adults instructed to follow continuous moderate-intensity training (MCT) or high-intensity interval training (HIIT) over a one-year period. Frequency, intensity, type, location and social setting (alone vs. together with others) of exercise were assessed using exercise logs from 618 older adults (aged 70-77 years) randomized to MCT or HIIT. All participants completed exercise logs after each exercise session they performed during one year. Pearson Chi-square tests were run to assess the association between intensity, type, location and social setting of exercise with training group. Both groups performed 2.2 ± 1.3 exercise sessions per week during the year. Walking was the most common exercise type in both groups, but MCT had a higher proportion of walking sessions than HIIT (54.2% vs. 41.1%, p < 0.01). Compared to MCT, HIIT had a higher proportion of sessions with cycling (14.2% vs. 9.8%, p < 0.01), combined endurance and resistance training (10.3% vs. 7.5%, p < 0.01), jogging (6.5% vs. 3.2%, p < 0.01) and swimming (2.6% vs. 1.7%, p < 0.01). Outdoors was the most common exercise location in both training groups (67.8 and 59.1% of all sessions in MCT and HIIT, respectively). Compared to MCT, HIIT had a higher proportion of sessions at a gym (21.4% vs. 17.5%, p < 0.01) and sports facility (9.8% vs. 7.6%, p < 0.01). Both groups performed an equal amount of sessions alone and together with others, but women had a higher proportion of sessions together with others compared to men (56% vs. 44%, p < 0.01). This is the first study that has followed older adults instructed to perform MCT or HIIT over a one-year period, collected data from each exercise session they performed and provided important knowledge about their exercise patterns. This novel information may help researchers and clinicians to develop tailored exercise programs in an ageing population.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 183 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 10%
Student > Master 15 8%
Researcher 11 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 5%
Other 28 15%
Unknown 73 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 34 19%
Sports and Recreations 30 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 10%
Psychology 5 3%
Unspecified 4 2%
Other 16 9%
Unknown 76 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 73. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 January 2021.
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#585,824
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Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#67
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Outputs of similar age
#12,528
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#2
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