Exercise Dose Effects on Body Fat 12 Months after an Exercise Intervention: Follow-up from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Christine M FriedenreichYibing RuanAalo DuhaKerry S Courneya

Published in: Journal of obesity (2019)

Prescribing 300 versus 150 minutes/week of exercise to inactive postmenopausal women resulted in some long-term greater decreases in measures of body composition but no overall differences in total body fat loss. This trail is registered with NCT01435005.

Keyphrases

body composition
postmenopausal women
resistance training
bone mineral density
high intensity
physical activity
primary care
randomized controlled trial
emergency department
placebo controlled