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Health Benefits Of Cycle Ergometer Training For Older Adults Over 70: A Review, Walid Bouaziz Nov 2015

Health Benefits Of Cycle Ergometer Training For Older Adults Over 70: A Review, Walid Bouaziz

Walid Bouaziz

As the number of older adults continues to increase worldwide, more attention is being paid to geriatric health care needs, and successful ageing is becoming an important topic in the medical literature. A preventive approach to the care of older adults is thus a priority in our aging societies. The purpose of this study was to update evidence for the health benefits of cycle ergometer training for older adults over 70. We searched online electronic databases up to September 2014 for original observational and intervention studies on the relationship between cycle ergometer training and health among older patients over 70. …


Effect Of Time-Of-Day Specific Obese Training On Body Composition And Physical Capacity, Walid Bouaziz Mar 2013

Effect Of Time-Of-Day Specific Obese Training On Body Composition And Physical Capacity, Walid Bouaziz

Walid Bouaziz

The best strategy for management of obese, outside pharmacological interventions, is physical exercise associated to diet. Recent research has discovered that the problem of obesity is largely due to a biological clock and that lipid oxidation is higher in the evening compared to the morning and at night compared to day. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of time-of-day specific obese training on body composition and physical capacity in obese following a low calorie diet. 20 sedentary pre-obese and obese with a mean BMI of 34.3 kg/m2 aged 20 to 47 years subjects participated in a …