Health benefits of interval walking training.

Interval walking training (IWT) is a free-living, training intervention involving alternating fast and slow walking cycles. IWT is efficacious in improving physical fitness, muscle strength, and reducing factors associated with lifestyle-related diseases. In individuals with type 2 diabetes, IWT improves glycemic control directly through enhanced glucose effectiveness, challenging conventional views on mechanisms behind training-induced improvements in glycemic control. Whereas adherence to IWT in short-term studies is high, ensuring long-term adherence remains a challenge, particularly in populations with chronic diseases and/or overweight/obesity. Long-term studies in real-world settings are imperative to ascertain the widespread effectiveness of IWT and elucidate its impact on hard endpoints.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme

• Publication date

  2024-03-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1139/apnm-2023-0595PMID 38507778
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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