And, because the body burns about 5 calories of energy to consume 1 liter of oxygen, increasing aerobic capacity can help the body become more efficient at using oxygen. This, in turn, helps burn calories, which an important component of weight loss.

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You can reduce your risk even further with more physical activity. Regular physical activity can also lower your blood pressure and improve your cholesterol levels. Regular physical activity can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is some combination of too much fat around the waist, high blood pressure, low high-density lipoproteins HDL cholesterol, high triglycerides, or high blood sugar.

People start to see benefits at levels from physical activity even without meeting the recommendations for minutes a week of moderate physical activity. Additional amounts of physical activity seem to lower risk even more.

Physical activity may help reduce the risk of serious outcomes from infectious diseases, including COVID, the flu, and pneumonia. For example:. Being physically active lowers your risk for developing several common cancers. Adults who participate in greater amounts of physical activity have reduced risks of developing cancers of the:.

If you are a cancer survivor, getting regular physical activity not only helps give you a better quality of life, but also improves your physical fitness. Learn more about Physical Activity and Cancer. Muscle-strengthening activities like lifting weights can help you increase or maintain your muscle mass and strength.

This is important for older adults who experience reduced muscle mass and muscle strength with aging. Slowly increasing the amount of weight and number of repetitions you do as part of muscle strengthening activities will give you even more benefits, no matter your age.

Everyday activities include climbing stairs, grocery shopping, or playing with your grandchildren. Being unable to do everyday activities is called a functional limitation. Physically active middle-aged or older adults have a lower risk of functional limitations than people who are inactive.

For older adults, doing a variety of physical activity improves physical function and decreases the risk of falls or injury from a fall. Include physical activities such as aerobic, muscle strengthening, and balance training. Multicomponent physical activity can be done at home or in a community setting as part of a structured program.

Hip fracture is a serious health condition that can result from a fall. Physically active people have a lower risk of hip fracture than inactive people. An estimated , deaths per year could be prevented if US adults ages 40 and older increased their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity by a small amount.

Even 10 minutes more a day would make a difference. Taking more steps a day also helps lower the risk of premature death from all causes. For adults younger than 60, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 8, to 10, steps per day.

For adults 60 and older, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 6, to 8, steps per day. Regular physical activity can help people manage existing chronic conditions and disabilities.

For example, regular physical activity can:.

The purpose of this systematic review was to synthesize evidence from studies that evaluated the efficacy of different types of exercises, including breathing exercises and IMT, in patients with IPF. We evaluated the impact of aerobic exercise training alone and when paired with resistance training, breathing exercises or IMT and their effects on exercise capacity, dyspnea, and HRQL.

A search strategy was developed with the assistance of a reference librarian. Reference lists of the included papers were manually reviewed. Only studies published in English and Japanese were included.

The review was registered with the PROSPERO database: CRD and this study was reported in accordance with the PRISMA standards guidelines Studies were included if: I the cohort included patients with IIPs; II an exercise program was the primary intervention that included a single intervention or a combination of aerobic, resistance, IMT or breathing exercise training diaphragmatic or pursed lip ; III they had any of the following outcomes—exercise capacity measured with 6MWD 19 , maximal rate of oxygen consumption peak V̇O 2 , peak work rate peak WR , endurance time t lim from a constant work rate cycle ergometry test, dyspnea score at rest and post exercise measured with the modified Borg scale 20 , Medical Research Council score 21 , modified Medical Research Council mMRC score 22 , Baseline Dyspnea Index BDI 23 , visual analog scale that assessed dyspnea VAS 24 ; HRQL evaluated using St.

Studies were excluded if they: I involved participants other than IIPs, connective tissue disorders and extra-parenchymal causes of restriction; or II were cross-sectional, retrospective, systematic reviews, editorial letters or conference abstracts without full-text.

Two investigators M. H and K. K independently screened abstracts to be selected for full text review. The same two investigators performed full-text review independently to determine inclusion for data synthesis and meta-analyses. Data was independently extracted and confirmed by the two reviewers.

Any disagreements regarding the selected articles were discussed between reviewers until consensus was achieved. A third person was not required to achieve agreement.

The methodological quality of each study was assessed independently by two investigators using the Downs and Black checklist 28 and scores were discussed until consensus was reached. Each study was assessed on items in the following categories: I reporting; II external validity; III internal validity bias ; IV internal validity confounding ; and V power.

The Cochrane systematic review software Review Manager version 5. Meta-analyses were conducted to evaluate the effects of exercise training interventions on exercise capacity, dyspnea, and HRQL. Fixed-effects models were used for analyses. Fourteen full-text articles of the 1, reviewed abstracts were included in this review Figure 1.

In these reports, data from IPF trained patients and 95 control subjects were reported. The authors of 4 papers were contacted for more information and 3 provided the required data for meta-analyses 31 - Of this number, 4 RCTs included 71 patients in the treatment groups and 71 patients in the control groups 31 , 35 - Ten prospective observational studies had a pre-post design that included patients that received exercise training 9 , 32 - 34 , 38 - 42 and one of these reports had 24 patients assigned in a non-random fashion to a control group The rehabilitation programs included aerobic training, resistance training, breathing exercises and IMT that were provided in 2—3 sessions per week for 8 to 12 weeks Table 1.

Four RCTs and one pre-post study had moderate quality scores, while the other nine pre-post design studies had low quality scores. All studies received points in the external validity category for reporting a hypothesis, a clear description of methods and participant characteristics, use of appropriate statistics, and reliable and accurate outcome measures.

The less commonly reported items were an a priori power calculation and whether the subject sample was representative of the general IPF population Table 2. The 6MWD, peak V̇O 2 , peak WR, and t lim on a constant WR cycle ergometer tests were used to evaluate exercise capacity in eleven, two, three and five studies, respectively.

Peak V̇O 2 was greater in the exercise training compared to the control group in one study 37 , while no significant pre- and post-effect was found in a study measuring the effect of aerobic training with IMT over 10 weeks.

Dyspnea was evaluated in twelve studies, while data from seven were pooled for meta-analyses. Five studies were excluded because data was not similar enough to be combined in the meta-analysis. Five studies used the modified Medical Research Council scale 9 , 32 - 34 , 37 , while the others used the BDI 35 , Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire CRDQ 41 and VAS The HRQL was evaluated in nine studies: four studies used SGRQ 35 , 37 , 42 , 43 , Figure 5 and five studies used SF Figure 6 9 , 32 - 34 , In five studies that evaluated HRQL using the SF 10 , 28 - 30 , 40 , the mean difference in all domains significantly increased after the exercise training regimens Figure 6.

This systematic review with meta-analyses demonstrated that PR utilizing aerobic training alone or combined with breathing exercises or IMT led to significant improvements in exercise capacity, dyspnea and HRQL.

Improvement in exercise capacity was shown in the 6MWD, peak WR and most consistently in the t lim of constant WR cycle ergometry. Aerobic training combined with breathing exercises not only improved exercise capacity but appeared to have a complementary effect on improving dyspnea scores. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review to examine PR interventions that included breathing exercises or IMT combined with exercise training.

In this meta-analysis, exercise training showed a significant improvement in the 6MWD. Aerobic training combined with breathing exercises appeared to show a complementary effect. Our meta-analysis of RCTs showed an overall significant mean difference of 48 m in the 6MWD and the one RCT that utilized breathing exercises showed a mean difference of 81 m.

An increase of 24 to 45 m in 6MWD has been reported as the minimal clinically important difference in patients with IPF These data suggest that breathing exercise with aerobic training may provide added benefit for patients with IPF.

These findings are consistent with previously reported improvements in exercise tolerance with PR in individuals with ILD 8 , 12 , Aerobic exercise combined with IMT was more beneficial in improving constant WR t lim compared to aerobic exercise training alone.

Nykvist et al. performed IMT with aerobic exercise in patients with IPF for 8 weeks and reported a significant increase in exercise capacity and decrease in dyspnea symptoms compared to the control group Aerobic exercise plus IMT may be beneficial because increased inspiratory muscle strength can improve the efficiency of the respiratory muscles required for ventilation Furthermore, improved exercise endurance may result in improved aerobic capacity, and hence reduced ventilatory load during exercise.

The good news [PDF Heart disease and stroke are two leading causes of death in the United States. Getting at least minutes a week of moderate physical activity can put you at a lower risk for these diseases.

You can reduce your risk even further with more physical activity. Regular physical activity can also lower your blood pressure and improve your cholesterol levels.

Regular physical activity can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is some combination of too much fat around the waist, high blood pressure, low high-density lipoproteins HDL cholesterol, high triglycerides, or high blood sugar.

People start to see benefits at levels from physical activity even without meeting the recommendations for minutes a week of moderate physical activity. Additional amounts of physical activity seem to lower risk even more. Physical activity may help reduce the risk of serious outcomes from infectious diseases, including COVID, the flu, and pneumonia.

For example:. Being physically active lowers your risk for developing several common cancers. Adults who participate in greater amounts of physical activity have reduced risks of developing cancers of the:.

If you are a cancer survivor, getting regular physical activity not only helps give you a better quality of life, but also improves your physical fitness. Learn more about Physical Activity and Cancer. Muscle-strengthening activities like lifting weights can help you increase or maintain your muscle mass and strength.

This is important for older adults who experience reduced muscle mass and muscle strength with aging. Slowly increasing the amount of weight and number of repetitions you do as part of muscle strengthening activities will give you even more benefits, no matter your age.

Everyday activities include climbing stairs, grocery shopping, or playing with your grandchildren. Being unable to do everyday activities is called a functional limitation. Physically active middle-aged or older adults have a lower risk of functional limitations than people who are inactive.

For older adults, doing a variety of physical activity improves physical function and decreases the risk of falls or injury from a fall. Include physical activities such as aerobic, muscle strengthening, and balance training.

Multicomponent physical activity can be done at home or in a community setting as part of a structured program. Hip fracture is a serious health condition that can result from a fall. Physically active people have a lower risk of hip fracture than inactive people.

An estimated , deaths per year could be prevented if US adults ages 40 and older increased their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity by a small amount. Even 10 minutes more a day would make a difference. Taking more steps a day also helps lower the risk of premature death from all causes.

For adults younger than 60, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 8, to 10, steps per day.

For adults 60 and older, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 6, to 8, steps per day. Regular physical activity can help people manage existing chronic conditions and disabilities.

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The high turnover rate of skeletal muscle ATP observed during prolonged intense exercise leads to excessive increases in hydrogen ion production e. Keywords : Acid-base balance, Buffering, Nutritional supplementation, Exercise performance.

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Nutritional supplements include, but are not limited to, beta-alanine, sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate, sodium lactate and calcium lactate. Emerging mechanistic evidence coupled with refined application methodologies is stimulating novel research in this area, and further generating interest from both the scientific and sport science support communities.

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The most recent search was on 3 March We also searched two ongoing trials registers: clinicaltrials. gov, most recently on 4 March ; and the World Health Organization WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform ICTRP , most recently on 16 March We included all randomised controlled trials RCTs and quasi-RCTs comparing physical activity interventions of any type and a minimum intervention duration of two weeks with conventional care no physical activity intervention in people with CF.

Two review authors independently selected RCTs for inclusion, assessed methodological quality and extracted data.

We assessed the certainty of the evidence using GRADE. We included 24 parallel RCTs participants. The number of participants in the studies ranged from nine to , with a wide range of disease severity. The studies' age demographics varied: in two studies, all participants were adults; in 13 studies, participants were 18 years and younger; in one study, participants were 15 years and older; in one study, participants were 12 years and older; and seven studies included all age ranges.

Of the 24 included studies, seven implemented a follow-up period when supervision was withdrawn, but participants were still allowed to exercise ranging from one to 12 months. Studies employed differing levels of supervision: in 12 studies, training was supervised; in 11 studies, it was partially supervised; and in one study, training was unsupervised.

This Cochrane Review shows that, in studies with an active training programme lasting over six months in people with CF, physical activity probably has a positive effect on exercise capacity when compared to no physical activity usual care mean difference MD 1.

The magnitude of improvement in exercise capacity is interpreted as small, although study results were heterogeneous. One study participants reported no differences between the physical activity and control groups in the number of participants experiencing a pulmonary exacerbation by six months incidence rate ratio 1.

We found no difference between groups in the number of adverse events over six months odds ratio 6. For other time points up to and including six months and during a follow-up period with no active intervention , the effects of physical activity versus control were similar to those reported for the outcomes above.

However, only three out of seven studies adding a follow-up period with no active intervention ranging between one and 12 months reported on the primary outcomes of changes in exercise capacity and lung function, and one on HRQoL.

These data must be interpreted with caution. Altogether, given the heterogeneity of effects across studies, the wide variation in study quality and lack of information on clinically meaningful changes for several outcome measures, we consider the overall certainty of evidence on the effects of physical activity interventions on exercise capacity, lung function and HRQoL to be low to moderate.

Language: English Deutsch Español فارسی Français Hrvatski 日本語 한국어 Bahasa Malaysia Polski Português 简体中文 繁體中文. Review question We reviewed the evidence about whether physical activity interventions including exercise have any effect on exercise capacity, health-related quality of life and lung function in people with cystic fibrosis CF.

Background CF affects many systems in the body, but mainly the lungs. Search date The evidence is current to 3 March Study characteristics We included 24 studies participants in this review. Key results This systematic review shows that physical activity interventions for longer than six months probably improve exercise capacity in people with CF.

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