Emmanuel Stamatakis, Bo-Huei Huang, Carol Maher, Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Afroditi Stathi, Paddy C Dempsey, Nathan Johnson, Andreas Holtermann, Josephine Y Chau, Catherine Sherrington, Amanda J Daley, Mark Hamer, Marie H Murphy, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Martin J Gibala
Recently revised public health guidelines acknowledge the health benefits of regular intermittent bouts of vigorous intensity incidental physical activity done as part of daily living, such as carrying shopping bags, walking uphill, and stair climbing. Despite this recognition and the advantages such lifestyle physical activity has over continuous vigorous intensity structured exercise, a scoping review we conducted revealed that current research in this area is, at best, rudimentary. Key gaps include the absence of an empirically-derived dose specification (e...
October 26, 2020: Sports Medicine