Feasibility of an 18 months' physical training program for middle-aged men and its effect on physical fitness.

Oja, P.; Teräslinna, P; Partanen, Timo; Kärävä, R

doi:10.2105/ajph.64.5.459

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“…Previous research reports CRF’s significant protective effects on all-cause mortality, 13,14 cancer-related mortality, 15 diabetes incidence, 16 CHD incidence, 17 and CHD mortality. 8,18,19 Barlow et al 20 reported that a 1-unit metabolic equivalent of task (MET) increase in baseline CRF resulted in an 18% decrease in CVD mortality in FRS-classified “low-risk” adults over a 30-year follow-up period.…”

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Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Coronary Heart Disease in Asymptomatic Men

Gander

Sui

Hébert

et al. 2015

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

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Objective To examine the association of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) while controlling for an individual’s Framingham Risk Score (FRS)–predicted CHD risk. Patients and Methods The study included 29,854 men from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study, who received a baseline examination from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2002. Coronary heart disease events included self-reported myocardial infarction or revascularization or CHD death. Multivariable survival analysis investigated the association between CRF, FRS, and CHD. Cardiorespiratory fitness was analyzed as both a continuous and a categorical variable. The population was stratified by “low” and “moderate or high” risk of CHD to test for differences in the FRS stratified by CRF. Results Compared with men without incident CHD, men with incident CHD were older (mean age, 51.6 years vs 44.6 years), had lower average maximally achieved fitness (10.9 metabolic equivalent of tasks vs 12.0 metabolic equivalent of tasks [METs]), and were more likely to have moderate or high 10-year CHD risk (P<.001). Cardiorespiratory fitness, defined as maximal METs, exhibited a 20% lower risk of CHD (hazard ratio, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.77–0.83) for each 1-unit MET increase. Among men in the low CRF strata, individuals with moderate or high 10-year CHD risk, according to the FRS, had a higher CHD risk (hazard ratio, 6.55; 95% CI, 3.64–11.82) than men with low CHD risk according to the FRS. Conclusion Clinicians should promote physical activity to improve CRF so as to reduce CHD risk, even to patients with otherwise low CHD risk.

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Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Coronary Heart Disease in Asymptomatic Men

Gander

Sui

Hébert

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Mayo Clinic Proceedings

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“…However, as in many voluntary therapeutic settings, recidivism presents a major impediment to effective treatment. Adult fitness programs have typically reported adherence rates of only 40-65% (Bruce, Frederick, Bruce, & Fisher, 1976;Massie & Shephard, 1971;Morgan, 1977a;Oja, Teraslinna, Partanen, & Karava, 1975;Oldridge, 1977aOldridge, , 1977bSidney & Shephard, 1976), indicating a substantial dropout percentage among those who volunteer to enter an exercise program. Therefore, from a practical as well as a theoretical standpoint, there exists a need to determine what factors are most likely to contribute to adherence to such programs-a problem that is analogous in many respects to the problem of ensuring patient compliance in many medical treatment programs.…”

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Self‐Motivation and Adherence to Habitual Physical Activity¹

Dishman

Ickes²,

Morgan³

1980

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The purpose of this investigation was to develop and refine a psychometric measure of self‐motivation and assess its relationship to adherence to programs of habitual physical activity. Following construction of a Self‐Motivation Inventory, a series of studies were conducted involving the pretesting of undergraduate males and females (N= 401) and subsequent validation work involving intercollegiate women athletes (N= 64) and adult males (N= 66) in actual exercise settings. Results of the psychometric work provided evidence for the logical validity, internal consistency, and test‐retest reliability of the self‐motivation construct. In addition, convergent and discriminant evidence was provided for construct validity through self‐motivation's pattern of association with other conceptually relevant psychometric variables. Finally, from the standpoint of behavioral validation, self‐motivation proved to be the best discriminator between exercise adherers and dropouts among the psychological variables employed and was strongly related to program adherence in both exercise settings. In fact, when combined with selected morphologic variables in a psychobiologic framework, self‐motivation scores were found to accurately classify participants according to their adherence status in approximately 80% of all cases and to account for nearly 50% of the variance in exercise adherence behavior.

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“…the sporadic attendance in these programs (cf., Oja, Teraslinn, Partanen, & Karava, 1974;Sime, Whipple, Stamler, & Berkson, 1976). The major question remains, how can people be motivated to participate regularly in physical fitness activities?…”

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Motivating People to be Physically Active: Self‐Persuasion vs. Balanced Decision Making¹

Wankel

Thompson

1977

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Female members of an adult physical fitness club, who had been inactive for a period of at least one month, were assigned to one of four treatment groups. A control group received no treatment while the other three groups underwent different treatments during a telephone interview. A regular call‐up group received a standard club telephone interview advocating greater participation in the club's activities; a decision‐balance‐sheet group completed a list of anticipated gains and losses for attending the club's activities; a positive‐outcomes‐only group (i.e., self‐persuasion condition) completed a list of anticipated gains for attending the club's activities. Attendance rates for both the decision balance‐sheet group and the self‐persuasion group were better than for the control group. Also, attendance for the self‐persuasion group was significantly better than for the regular club call‐up group, Results are discussed in terms of self‐persuasion and emotional inoculation processes with respect to behavioral change and behavioral maintenance.

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Feasibility of an 18 months' physical training program for middle-aged men and its effect on physical fitness.

Cited by 26 publications

References 18 publications

Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Coronary Heart Disease in Asymptomatic Men

Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Coronary Heart Disease in Asymptomatic Men

Self‐Motivation and Adherence to Habitual Physical Activity¹

Motivating People to be Physically Active: Self‐Persuasion vs. Balanced Decision Making¹

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Feasibility of an 18 months' physical training program for middle-aged men and its effect on physical fitness.

Cited by 26 publications

References 18 publications

Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Coronary Heart Disease in Asymptomatic Men

Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Coronary Heart Disease in Asymptomatic Men

Self‐Motivation and Adherence to Habitual Physical Activity1

Motivating People to be Physically Active: Self‐Persuasion vs. Balanced Decision Making1

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