Home HIT seems to be effective at improving physical fitness in obese people

How much do you exercise? Government guidelines suggest that, to stay healthy, adults should perform at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity each week – this is an exercise that boosts breathing and heart rate.

A new study, published in The physiology journal have studied a home-based high-intensity Home-HIT program and studied its benefits for clinically obese people at high risk for heart disease.

Previous research has shown that under controlled laboratory conditions, three 20-minute exercise sessions provide the same benefits as the 150-minute recommended by the government. However, the question is whether data produced in highly controlled laboratory environments can be translated into the real world.

The research team at John Moores University in Liverpool wanted to know if Home-HIT was an effective time strategy to reduce other common obstacles to exercise, such as difficulty accessing exercise facilities because of the time and travel costs.

In this study, 32 obese individuals completed a 12-week program that included: 1) a TIH program for cyclists supervised in the laboratory, 2) a moderate exercise program of 150 minutes recommended by the government or 3) a home based HIT program that provides weight-loss exercises for people with poor physical condition and reduced mobility and is performed without equipment. For all these diets, the exercise was performed three times a week.

The researchers measured a range of health markers among these participants, including body composition, risk of cardiovascular disease, and ability to regulate blood glucose. They found that HIT at home was as effective as the government recommended 150 minutes and the laboratory-supervised HIT program to improve the fitness of obese people.

Sam Scott, first author of the study said:

An exercise program, such as Home-HIT, that reduces barriers to exercise, such as time, costs, and access, and increases compliance in individuals previously Inactive, gives people a more achievable exercise goal and could thus help improve the health of countless people. "