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Morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults

BACKGROUND: Exercise training is crucial for maintaining physical and mental health in aging populations. However, as people participate in structured exercise training, they tend to behaviorally compensate by decreasing their non-exercise physical activity, thus potentially blunting the benefits of...

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Autores principales: Vetrovsky, Tomas, Omcirk, Dan, Malecek, Jan, Stastny, Petr, Steffl, Michal, Tufano, James J.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7953813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33711945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02131-y
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author Vetrovsky, Tomas
Omcirk, Dan
Malecek, Jan
Stastny, Petr
Steffl, Michal
Tufano, James J.
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Omcirk, Dan
Malecek, Jan
Stastny, Petr
Steffl, Michal
Tufano, James J.
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description BACKGROUND: Exercise training is crucial for maintaining physical and mental health in aging populations. However, as people participate in structured exercise training, they tend to behaviorally compensate by decreasing their non-exercise physical activity, thus potentially blunting the benefits of the training program. Furthermore, physical activity of older adults is substantially influenced by physical feelings such as fatigue. Nevertheless, how older people react to day-to-day fluctuations of fatigue and whether fatigue plays a role in non-exercise physical activity compensation is not known. Thus, the purpose of this study was twofold: (1) To explore whether the volume and intensity of habitual physical activity in older adults were affected by morning fatigue. (2) To investigate the effect of attending power and resistance exercise sessions on the levels of non-exercise physical activity later that day and the following day. METHODS: Twenty-eight older adults wore an accelerometer during a 4-week low-volume, low-intensity resistance and power training program with three exercise sessions per week and for 3 weeks preceding and 1 week following the program. During the same period, the participants were prompted every morning, using text messages, to rate their momentary fatigue on a scale from 0 to 10. RESULTS: Greater morning fatigue was associated with lower volume (p = 0.002) and intensity (p = 0.017) of daily physical activity. Specifically, one point greater on the fatigue scale was associated with 3.2 min (SE 1.0) less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Furthermore, attending an exercise session was associated with less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity later that day by 3.7 min (SE 1.9, p = 0.049) compared to days without an exercise session. During the next day, the volume of physical activity was greater, but only in participants with a body mass index up to 23 (p = 0.008). CONCLUSIONS: Following low-volume exercise sessions, fit and healthy older adults decreased their non-exercise physical activity later that day, but this compensation did not carry over into the next day. As momentary morning fatigue negatively affects daily physical activity, we suggest that the state level of fatigue should be monitored during intensive exercise programs, especially in less fit older adults with increased fatigability.
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spelling pubmed-79538132021-03-15 Morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults Vetrovsky, Tomas Omcirk, Dan Malecek, Jan Stastny, Petr Steffl, Michal Tufano, James J. BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Exercise training is crucial for maintaining physical and mental health in aging populations. However, as people participate in structured exercise training, they tend to behaviorally compensate by decreasing their non-exercise physical activity, thus potentially blunting the benefits of the training program. Furthermore, physical activity of older adults is substantially influenced by physical feelings such as fatigue. Nevertheless, how older people react to day-to-day fluctuations of fatigue and whether fatigue plays a role in non-exercise physical activity compensation is not known. Thus, the purpose of this study was twofold: (1) To explore whether the volume and intensity of habitual physical activity in older adults were affected by morning fatigue. (2) To investigate the effect of attending power and resistance exercise sessions on the levels of non-exercise physical activity later that day and the following day. METHODS: Twenty-eight older adults wore an accelerometer during a 4-week low-volume, low-intensity resistance and power training program with three exercise sessions per week and for 3 weeks preceding and 1 week following the program. During the same period, the participants were prompted every morning, using text messages, to rate their momentary fatigue on a scale from 0 to 10. RESULTS: Greater morning fatigue was associated with lower volume (p = 0.002) and intensity (p = 0.017) of daily physical activity. Specifically, one point greater on the fatigue scale was associated with 3.2 min (SE 1.0) less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Furthermore, attending an exercise session was associated with less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity later that day by 3.7 min (SE 1.9, p = 0.049) compared to days without an exercise session. During the next day, the volume of physical activity was greater, but only in participants with a body mass index up to 23 (p = 0.008). CONCLUSIONS: Following low-volume exercise sessions, fit and healthy older adults decreased their non-exercise physical activity later that day, but this compensation did not carry over into the next day. As momentary morning fatigue negatively affects daily physical activity, we suggest that the state level of fatigue should be monitored during intensive exercise programs, especially in less fit older adults with increased fatigability. BioMed Central 2021-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7953813/ /pubmed/33711945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02131-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Omcirk, Dan
Malecek, Jan
Stastny, Petr
Steffl, Michal
Tufano, James J.
Morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults
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title_full Morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults
title_fullStr Morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults
title_full_unstemmed Morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults
title_short Morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults
title_sort morning fatigue and structured exercise interact to affect non-exercise physical activity of fit and healthy older adults
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7953813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33711945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02131-y
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