The
animals in the exercise group were healthier; they didn't develop the same insulin resistance and diabetes, which might explain why the bones of the exercising rats were healthier, Hinton said.
Study participants
included in the exercise group received a more complex treatment, including twenty individually tailored physiotherapy sessions lasting one hour each, over the course of twelve weeks.
Mice in the sedentary group were single - housed in a standard mouse cage, whereas
mice in the exercise group were single - housed in a cage with an exercise wheel (Lafayette Instrument).
A study of nine women who had fasted for some time before the experiment found that appetite ratings of the
subjects in the exercise group fell for up to two hours after they had been placed on a treadmill for 30 minutes.
The biggest problem was that about one - third of the
women in the exercise group had to give up the classes at some point in the study because of time constraints, child - care conflicts and other issues that made it difficult to attend the class.
In fact, the
volunteers in the exercise group who had worked out the most during the past six months tended now to have slightly less lengthening and even some shortening, compared to those who had exercised less but stood up more.
And
those in the exercise group actually gained weight over the weekends.
Those in the exercise group completed 60 - to 90 - minute workout sessions in a gym twice per week for four months.
Those in the exercise group became more physically fit, but their dementia scores were actually slightly worse than the patients who received their usual care.
Painful and tight trigger points in the neck area were reduced more
in the exercise group.
These showed that
those in the exercise group were, not surprisingly, exercising more than they had been previously.
The kids in the control group gained a mean of 0.45 kg, while
those in the exercise group gained 0.86 kg.
In the exercise group, 3 participants completed at least 80 % of the sessions and the remaining 11 participants completed 100 % of sessions.