The training groups performed the same total amount of exercises and repetitions for a total of 1 h per week for 20 weeks during working hours.
The four training-groups performed the same total amount of exercises and repetitions per week - i.e. an equal training volume - for a total of one hour per week for 20 weeks during working-hours.
The two training groups had the same total amount of exercises and repetitions planned three times per week.
Obese patients often overestimate their total amount of exercise (14).
Those features were a greater total amount of exercise, and an emphasis on more challenging balance exercises.
Several randomised clinical trials report no differences between various intensities of exercise and conclude that the total amount of exercise is more important than exercise intensity.
Participation in competitive sports was a risk factor for OIs during military training, indicating that as the total amount of exercise increases from 17 hours per week in military setting, there is point at which OIs clearly increase.
However, since most exercise intervention studies typically divided the total amount of exercise over three exercise sessions per week (17), it is presently unclear whether daily exercise sessions provide an equal or additional benefit with respect to glycemic control compared with a less frequent exercise regimen.
Other randomised trials report larger decreases in weight, waist circumference and diastolic blood pressure, 13 or larger increases in HDL-c, 12 for higher compared with lower intensity exercise, but these studies did not control for differences in the total amount of exercise, so the reported effects could be due to the higher exercise volume instead of the higher intensity.
7 10 Other studies conclude that exercise at a higher intensity results in more beneficial changes in cardiovascular risk factors compared with exercise at a lower intensity, 11 15 although not all studies adequately control for differences in the total amount of exercise.
7 10 These trials describe long-term changes (after 3 8 months) in cardiovascular risk factors and the total weekly amount of exercise is limited (not more than 3 h or 1000 1200 calories/week).
