Working out at home as effective as gyming

If you are not finding time to hit the gym, do not worry. Researchers have found that working out at home not only saves your time, cost and access but also increases adherence.

The study, published in The Journal of Physiology,investigated a home-based high-intensity interval training (Home-HIT) programmeand studied its benefits for clinically obese individuals with an elevated riskof heart disease.

   

The research team were interested in whether Home-HIT is atime-efficient strategy that helps to reduce other common exercise barrierssuch as difficulty with access to exercise facilities due to travel time andcost.

“An exercise regimen such as Home-HIT that reducesbarriers to exercise such as time, cost, and access, and increases adherence inpreviously inactive individuals gives people a more attainable exercise goaland thus could help improve the health of countless individuals,” saidstudy author Sam Scott from Liverpool John Moores University.

For the study, 32 obese people completed a 12-week exerciseprogramme. A range of health markers were measured in these participants,including body composition, cardiovascular disease risk and the ability toregulate glucose.

They were categorised in three groups — those who didsupervised, lab-based cycling HIT programme; those who did UKgovernment-recommended 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise; and thosewho did home-based HIT programme of simple body weight exercises suitable forpeople with low fitness and low mobility and performed without equipment. The researchers found that home-based HIT was aseffective as both the government-recommended 150-minute exercise and thesupervised, lab-based HIT programme for improving fitness in obese individuals.

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