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BMJ OPEN SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001749
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Physical activity; Exercise; Exercise testing
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Physical inactivity has a significant impact on health, and promoting active lifestyles is crucial for improving overall health and quality of life. The current guidelines for physical activity should include more specific testing, prescription, and programming for physical exercise to enhance fitness and encourage adherence in the general population.
Physical inactivity is a major health concern, associated with the development of several non-communicable diseases and with an increased mortality rate. Therefore, promoting active lifestyles has become a crucial public health necessity for enhancing overall health and quality of life. The WHO guidelines for physical activity (PA) present valuable contributions in this respect; however, we believe that greater specificity should be added or complemented towards physical exercise (PE) testing, prescription and programming in future recommendations. In this review article, we suggest simple and practical tools accessible to the entire population to improve the specificity of this approach, highlighting aspects of PE programming used by trained subjects. By adopting these suggestions, exercise professionals, clinicians and physical trainers can optimise the current general PA recommendations towards PE prescription to improve fitness status and encourage PE adherence in the general population.
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