Sentences with phrase «study participants exercises»

Not exact matches

The participants then followed one of three protocols — the first control group did nothing in particular, the second exercised for 35 minutes 40 minutes after studying, while the third group exercised for the same amount of time four hours later.

Science says so; in one study, after eight weeks participants who followed an intermittent fasting eating schedule lost 3.5 pounds of fat while those who similarly exercised and took in the same total calories did not.

Screening, random assignment, and follow - up of the study participants in the Swedish dietary and exercise behavior - modification intervention trial in lactating overweight and obese women.

Study participants completed a questionnaire on the frequency and intensity of exercise during their lifetime.

«New exercises help athletes manage dangerous breathing disorder: Two - thirds of study participants say the techniques help them breathe when symptoms strike.»

Leonard Spector of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC told a US Congressional committee last week that in a recent military exercise, the US and 18 other nations, and «more than 12,000 participants» rehearsed ways to «prevent the transfer of chemical arms out of Syria».

Participants were instructed to maintain current levels of exercise and to avoid taking other nutritional supplements during the study.

What sets this study apart from others is the high number of participants, and that they exercised for a relatively long period of time.

The study found that a personalized diet and exercise plan was helpful to 40 percent of the participants, who dropped at least 5 percent of their body weight after six months of dieting and exercise and six months of maintenance.

In Heinrichs» and Dawans» study, male participants were assigned to either an experimental group, with a stress procedure (a public speaking exercise followed by a complicated mental arithmetics), or a control group with no stress.

Participants enrolled in the Study in Parkinson Disease of Exercise (SPARX) were at an early stage of the disease and not taking Parkinson's medication, ensuring the results of the study were related to the exercise and not affected by medicaStudy in Parkinson Disease of Exercise (SPARX) were at an early stage of the disease and not taking Parkinson's medication, ensuring the results of the study were related to the exercise and not affected by medicastudy were related to the exercise and not affected by medication.

The participants in this study actually exceeded the target amounts of exercise; achieving 107 minutes of vigorous exercise training each week for 10 - weeks.

Additionally, feedback from the participants themselves has also been published in the journal BMC Psychiatry, as «The effects and determinants of exercise in first - episode psychosis: a qualitative study»

The study had detailed information on participants reported at baseline recruitment, including self - reported exercise participation between the ages of 13 and 19, adult lifestyle - related factors, and mortality outcomes.

When enrolling in the study, participants from two counties in Sweden completed a questionnaire about their level of activity at work, home, walking or bicycling, and exercise in the year prior at an average of 60 years old and retrospectively at 30 years old.

Based on data gathered when participants entered each study, the investigators used four AHA - defined lifestyle factors — no current smoking; lack of obesity, defined as a body mass index less than 30; physical exercise at least once a week, and a healthy dietary pattern — to determine a lifestyle score, whether participants had a favorable (three or four healthy factors), intermediate (two factors) or unfavorable (one or no healthy factors) lifestyle.

«We found that after 12 weeks of being on a moderate exercise program, study participants improved their neural efficiency — basically they were using fewer neural resources to perform the same memory task,» says Dr. Smith.

«This program capitalizes on local resources that can bring about change in behavior and improve blood pressure rates,» said Monique Anderson, M.D., lead researcher of the study and a medical instructor in cardiology at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. «As participants became more knowledgeable, they probably started exercising more, taking their medication more, and those who were really engaged showed dramatic responses in blood pressure change.»

The study notes that this decrease might be a consequence of participants not being able to stay with the prescribed diet and exercise regimen over the four - year period.

All programs were individualized for the study participants, incorporating elements of cardiovascular exercise, strength and endurance training, and exercises for flexibility, posture, and balance, with extra emphasis in areas where participants were weak.

Primary responsibility will be to recruit participants and deliver the intervention for a study looking at the benefit of exercise rehabilitation training on weakness and fatigue in cancer patients.

One study has found that participants who took glucomannan lost a lot of weight and fat regardless of whether they exercised or not.

The study participants were evaluated based on their self - reported health, neuroticism, and behaviors like smoking, diet, exercise, and drinking as well as BMI, blood pressure, cognitive function, and more.

In fact, a recent study by Focht and colleague Tom Raedeke, PhD, found just what Gilbert discovered: When the instructors feedback focused on an exercise routines fitness or health benefits, participants felt better, enjoyed the class more, and were more motivated to return than when the instructor emphasized looking good or losing weight.

The study produced results which were very similar to the previous study where participants that took creatine right after exercising had a much bigger increase in muscle tissue in comparison to those who were exercising and taking creatine beforehand, or those in the control group that were exercising but weren't using any creatine.

The study produced an interesting result in which researchers noticed an increased gain in muscle tissue and strength in the participants» group which took creatine immediately after exercising in comparison to the second group which took creatine immediately before exercising.

Baron points out that the study looked at just a short snippet of the participants» lives (one week), so they don't know if a poorer diet and exercise could lead to weight gain over time.

In other words, these studies found no significant difference in strength gains and muscular hypertrophy between the group of participants who first performed exercises that target large muscle groups and the group who first performed isolation exercises.

At the start of the study, 43 percent of the participants reported that they had no regular exercise; 36 percent engaged in regular light exercise, such as walking, golf, dancing or bowling; and 21 percent engaged in regular moderate to intense exercise, such as tennis, hiking, biking, swimming, racquetball or jogging.

For the study which lasted for 18 months, 249 obese or overweight participants in their 60s were assigned to 1 of 3 groups: a group with a low - calorie diet and without any exercise; a group with a low - calorie diet and walking; and a group with a low - calorie diet and weight training.

The study participants, who were in good health, were asked at baseline to report their exercise participation frequency and also at what intensity: exhausted, breathless and sweating, or not breathless and sweating.

Indeed, the study participants did report that exercising on the mini-trampoline was a lot of fun, and that the JumpSport choreography was easy to learn.

«Participants with happy partners were significantly more likely to report better health, experience less physical impairment, and to exercise more frequently than participants with unhappy partners,» says the study, «even accounting for the impact of their own happiness and other life circumstaParticipants with happy partners were significantly more likely to report better health, experience less physical impairment, and to exercise more frequently than participants with unhappy partners,» says the study, «even accounting for the impact of their own happiness and other life circumstaparticipants with unhappy partners,» says the study, «even accounting for the impact of their own happiness and other life circumstances.»

The study also found that during the workout portion of the trampoline routine (not including the warm - up and cool - down), participants averaged 79 percent of their maximum heart rate and 59 percent of their VO2 max, a measure of how much oxygen the body can utilize during exercise.

The differences in weight gain between those who do and don't exercise regularly are likely to become even more pronounced as the study participants get older, says Tim Church, MD, of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in Baton Rouge, La..

Results showed it was an exercise that stimulated physiological and metabolic responses matching those of a brisk treadmill walk among study participants.

Of course, the study couldn't definitively prove that participants had these infections, based on antibiotic prescriptions alone — or that exercise habits played a direct role in their susceptibility for them.

If assessing the connection between fat intake and diabetes, a good study will take into account all meaningful variables, such as how often the participants exercised, or whether they had existing cardiovascular disease.

One study documented participants who got 120 minutes of moderate intensity exercise every week did see improvements in the volume of their brain.

In this study, the participants were given a full - body regimen, whilst earlier studies included leg - only exercises.

The participants of this study performed better on the tests after yoga practice in comparison to after an aerobic exercise session.

Koppel believes there was too little supervision of the study participants to be sure they were doing the exercise as recommended.

Coffee was linked to nearly 11 % of the ruptures in the study participants and vigorous exercise to roughly 8 %.

After the examination, study participants rode an exercise bike 3 times / week over a 12 week period.

While longer exercise sessions are valuable for fat loss and cardiovascular health, the study found that this reasonably short time investment allowed participants to reap significant health rewards.

In contrast to Phinney's study, these participants were: 1) highly trained; and 2) exercised throughout the study.

Participants indicated what types of exercise they did and how many minutes per week they did each exercise, and then the researchers calculated a special number called a «hazard ratio» (HR) over the 8 - year period of each person's participation in the study (19).

While these studies suggest beneficial effects, they both studied healthy young adults (in their early 20s1, 2), had very small sample sizes (one study had 10 participants2, the other had 201), and used volunteers as study participants.1, 2 All of these factors decreases the chances that the results can be generalized to all people who engage in exercise.

The fact that exercise alone doesn't result in significant weight loss was demonstrated in the notorious marathon study, wherein previously sedentary participants trained for a marathon for 18 months and eventually ran a marathon - we know they exercised a lot because a marathon is no small feat (Janssen et al., 1989)!

I've actually even seen a particular study that divided thousands of participants into a diet - only group and an exercise & diet combined group.