Moderate-or high-intensity recommendations. Al though physical activity recommendations must consider patents underlying chronic illness and health status interventions that recommended moderate or high-intensity physical activity trended toward greater effectiveness in the
Fitness testing describes a structured evaluation of the patient’s physical fitness performed prior to the initiation of a physical activity program. Fitness testing may work in conjunction with other physical activity interventions, such as tailoring, exercise prescription, contracting, or self-monitoring, as a way of pro viding a baseline from which the patient strives to improve. Fitness testing can prevent injury and improve an exercise program’s chances of success by helping to ensure that it doesn’t exceed the patient’s ability. In addition, some patients are motivated by receiving objective information about their fitness level.Fitness
2008 meta-nanlysis in volving chronically ill adults. This finding echoes those of earlier meta-analyses of physical activity interventions in older adults. It’s possible that patients misinterpret recommendations for low-intensity physical aclieving that they represent no meaningful change from their current physical activity, or that they experience grenter real or perceived benefit from more intense physical ac-tivity. A study of older adults with knee osteoarthritis found that adherence was greater (84%)among those participating in a high-intensity, progressive strength training program than among those participating in a nutrition education program (65%).similarly, an in-tensive,water-based exercise program increased phys-ical activity among adults with rheumatoid arthritis.