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A higher effort-based paradigm in physical activity and exercise for public health: making the case for a greater emphasis on resistance training

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2017
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Title
A higher effort-based paradigm in physical activity and exercise for public health: making the case for a greater emphasis on resistance training
Published in
BMC Public Health, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4209-8
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Authors

James Steele, James Fisher, Martin Skivington, Chris Dunn, Josh Arnold, Garry Tew, Alan M. Batterham, David Nunan, Jamie M. O’Driscoll, Steven Mann, Chris Beedie, Simon Jobson, Dave Smith, Andrew Vigotsky, Stuart Phillips, Paul Estabrooks, Richard Winett

Abstract

It is well known that physical activity and exercise is associated with a lower risk of a range of morbidities and all-cause mortality. Further, it appears that risk reductions are greater when physical activity and/or exercise is performed at a higher intensity of effort. Why this may be the case is perhaps explained by the accumulating evidence linking physical fitness and performance outcomes (e.g. cardiorespiratory fitness, strength, and muscle mass) also to morbidity and mortality risk. Current guidelines about the performance of moderate/vigorous physical activity using aerobic exercise modes focuses upon the accumulation of a minimum volume of physical activity and/or exercise, and have thus far produced disappointing outcomes. As such there has been increased interest in the use of higher effort physical activity and exercise as being potentially more efficacious. Though there is currently debate as to the effectiveness of public health prescription based around higher effort physical activity and exercise, most discussion around this has focused upon modes considered to be traditionally 'aerobic' (e.g. running, cycling, rowing, swimming etc.). A mode customarily performed to a relatively high intensity of effort that we believe has been overlooked is resistance training. Current guidelines do include recommendations to engage in 'muscle strengthening activities' though there has been very little emphasis upon these modes in either research or public health effort. As such the purpose of this debate article is to discuss the emerging higher effort paradigm in physical activity and exercise for public health and to make a case for why there should be a greater emphasis placed upon resistance training as a mode in this paradigm shift.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 212 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 15%
Student > Bachelor 31 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 13%
Researcher 22 10%
Other 14 7%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 48 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 62 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 3%
Other 26 12%
Unknown 61 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 217. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2022.
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#4
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